This child, I took it, was a dwarf; but as I was interested in native religious customs which were infinite in their variety, I should much like to find out the truth of the matter.
"Talking of Arabs," she broke in, "I will tell you a curious story.

Once when I was a little girl, eight or nine years of age--it was just before that kind of awakening of which I have spoken to you--I was playing in Kensington Gardens, for we lived in London at the time, in the charge of my nurse-governess.

She was talking to some young man who she said was her cousin, and told me to run about with my hoop and not to bother.

I drove the hoop across the grass to some elm trees.

From behind one of the trees came out two tall men dressed in white robes and turbans, who looked to me like scriptural characters in a picture-book.