"A woman from this place?"
"No, from a place not far off."
"In the street?"
"What sort of a woman?"
"Why, then, a woman—a woman like myself."
"What has she to say to him, this woman?"
"I believe she is a country-woman of his."
They stared into one another's hand, watching one another, feeling, divining that something of a grave nature was going to arise between them.
He resumed:
"I could see her there, this woman."