I shall be keenly interested to hear all about your adventures.

Is there plenty of candle left in the lamp ?" "Oh yes.

I only used it for about an hour." "Then let us be off," said Thorndyke; and we accordingly set forth on our quest; and, as we went, I reflected once more on the apparent vagueness of our proceedings.

Presently I reopened the subject with Thorndyke.
"I can't imagine," said I, "that you have absolutely nothing in view.
That you are going to this place with no defined purpose whatever." "I did not say exactly that," replied Thorndyke.

"I said that I was not going to look for any particular thing or fact.