nor can I recall what the crowning rally was about. It didn't in any way join on to my impression of
In the drawing-room of the matting floor I rejoined her, with Altiora's manifest connivance, and in the interval I had been thinking of our former meeting.
“Do you find London,” I asked, “give you more opportunity for doing things and learning things than Burslem?”
She showed at once she appreciated my allusion to her former confidences.
“I was very discontented then,” she said and paused.
“I've really only been in London for a few months. It's so different. In Burslem, life seems all business and getting—without any reason. One went on and it didn't seem to mean anything. At least anything that mattered.... London seems to be so full of meanings—all mixed up together.”
She knitted her brows over her words and smiled appealingly at the end as if for consideration for her inadequate