For the rest, he seemed tired out--a man utterly wearied of life.

Before we had reached the town station he was asleep.
The train rushed on into the darkness, and after a time I ventured to glance toward the girl.

She, too, was leaning back in her place, but her face was turned a little away from me towards the window, through which she was gazing with the obvious intentness of one whose thoughts are far away.

I had all my life been used to observing closely people of either sex who interested me, and I found now, as I had found during those various accidental meetings in Paris, that the study of this young woman afforded me a peculiar pleasure.

Apart from her more personal fascination, she was faultlessly dressed.