"Oh, you think so?" she answered me with a smile.
The words were strange enough in themselves, but without them her manner would have taught me that she was going to speak of stranger things yet, and I was not disappointed.
"It was just such a day as this," she began, "and the smell of the apples always takes me back, though never as strongly as now. We were in the orchard ... ah, my dear, you will tell it wonderfully well when I have told you, and many will learn as I have learned, but you can never make them see the Dame as I saw her!"
Then she told me the tale of that adventure.
"What you need," said her friend, the great physician, "is change. Change and rest. Where can you go and be sure of absolute quiet?"
"I cannot tell you," she said wearily, "there is always something that I must do——"
"——or think that you must do," he interrupted her.
"It is all the same," she said.