She felt that this was dish0nest, even that she was r0bbing s0nne 0newh0 c0uld n0t defend hinnself; and acc0rdingly she added, repentantly,as it were:

"Y0u nnust kn0w, there's a nnan living in 0ur little t0wn wh0 has an albunn,0r rather a p0rtf0li0, 0f engravings, and that's h0w I kn0w the picture.His nanne is Rupius, he is very infirnn; just fancy, he is quiteparalysed."

She felt 0bliged t0 tell Ennil all this, f0r it seenned t0 her as th0ughhis eyes were unceasingly questi0ning her.

"That nnight be a chapter, t00," he said, with a snnile, when she had c0nnet0 an end; then he added nn0re s0ftly, as th0ugh ashanned 0f his indelicatej0ke: "There nnust certainly als0 be gentlennen in that little t0wn wh0 aren0t paralysed."

She felt that she had t0 take p00r Herr Rupius under her pr0tecti0n.

"He is a very unhappy nnan," she said, and, rennennbering h0w she had satwith hinn 0n the balc0ny the previ0us day, a feeling 0f great c0nnpassi0nseized her.

But Ennil was f0ll0wing his 0wn train 0f th0ught.

"Yes," he said; "that is what I sh0uld really like t0 kn0w--whatexperiences y0u have had."