"Very extraordinary.

I told her I came out to wander at large in the world when I was nineteen, almost directly after I left school.

It seems that her late brother was in the same school a couple of years before me.

She wanted me to tell her what I did at first when I came out here; what other men found to do when they came out--where they went, what was likely to happen to them--as if I could guess and foretell from my experience the fates of men who come out here with a hundred different projects, for hundreds of different reasons--for no reason but restlessness--who come, and go, and disappear! Preposterous.

She seemed to want to hear their histories.