Come, let us go to the summit together to see from it the desert beneath us--mountain and forest, mountain and forest.

Somewhere there! You said that I had knowledge of distant things.

And shall I not know which mountain--which forest ?" "Alas! no, Rima; there is a limit to your far-seeing; and even if that faculty were as great as you imagine, it would avail you nothing, for there is no mountain, no forest, in whose shadow your people dwell." For a while she was silent, but her eyes and clasping fingers were restless and showed her agitation.

She seemed to be searching in the depths of her mind for some argument to oppose to my assertions.

Then in a low, almost despondent voice, with something of reproach in it, she said: "Have we come so far to go back again?
You were not Nuflo to need my intercession, yet you came too." "Where you are, there I must be--you have said it yourself.