'Now what, if I may ask the question, is going to be your next step ?' 'That is just what I desire to know myself,' said Theodore Racksole.
'Well,' said Babylon, after a pause, 'let us begin.

In the first place, it is possible you may be interested to hear that I happened to see Jules to-day.' 'You did!' Racksole remarked with much calmness.

'Where ?' 'Well, it was early this morning, in Paris, just before I left there.
The meeting was quite accidental, and Jules seemed rather surprised at meeting me.

He respectfully inquired where I was going, and I said that I was going to Switzerland.

At that moment I thought I was going to Switzerland.