We were from first to last at cross purposes.

I asked him about Rhys Goch and his chair.

He told me that he knew nothing of either, and began to talk of Her Majesty's ministers and the fine sights of London.

I asked him the name of a stream which, descending a gorge on our right, ran down the side of a valley, to join the river at its bottom.

He told me that he did not know, and asked me the name of the Queen's eldest daughter.