"Well, they don't know where I am, you see, after all, and it's nice by the Gray Pool, where the trees bend down. You could rest there."
"Do I look as if I wanted to rest?"
"Can't say you do."
"You've never told me what brought you here all of a sudden."
"I wanted to find out something."
"Well, have you succeeded?"
He smiled at her in that sudden way of his that made her heart contract. She couldn't speak directly, but her silence seemed to her to say too much. She rushed nervously for the light veil of words.
"I was afraid my life was growing poorer than I had imagined. If you were going out of it, I knew I must go and find something to fill up the empty place."
"Going out of it?" He scrutinized her keenly. "Where should I go?"
"Oh, there are so many people and things beckoning to you. How could I tell? I was afraid you'd gone into some world where I couldn't follow—"