"You have been studying English customs, their methods of education, their political life, perhaps ?" He turned his head slowly and looked into her eyes.

She bore the ordeal well, but she never forgot it.

It seemed to her afterwards that he must have read every thought which had flashed through her brain.

She felt like a little child in the presence of some mysterious being, thoughts of whom had haunted her dreams, now visible in bodily shape for the first time.
"My dear young lady," he said, "please do not ask me too much, for I love to speak the truth, and there are many things which I may not tell.
Only you must understand that the country I love--my own country--must enter soon upon a new phase of her history.

We who look into the future can see the great clouds gathering.