"Do you think so?"
"I am sure."
"You do not believe in any signs?"
"None."
"You know that the traveler on the desert told the Bedouin that he did not, and yet from the foot prints of the camels the Bedouin deciphered the whole history of a caravan."
Astonished at her reply, David did not answer.
"And then, you know," she continued, "there are the weather signs."
"Yes—that is so."
"And what are the letters of a book but signs?"
"You are right again."