"That is going nowhere."
"Who knows?"
Thalcave was silent, and gazed at the geographer with profound surprise. He did not admit, however, that Paganel was joking the least in the world. An Indian, with his natural seriousness, never imagines that you are not speaking in earnest.
"You are not going to Carmen then?" he added, after an instant of silence.
A PROFESSORIAL DIFFICULTY.
"No," replied Paganel.
"Nor to Mendoza?"
"No."
At this moment Glenarvan, rejoining Paganel, asked what Thalcave said, and why he had stopped.