"I want it to interest you."
"It does," said Charlotte, "very much."
"Huh! You do not know what it is."
"That is why; it is much more interesting not to know."
"Ah, you are playing at me! But what I go to tell you is no joke."
"I was not laughing," she said.
"No; only 'chatter, chatter'!"
"You know where I have been?" he continued.
"I know the continent."
"Yes;—you are right; that is all anybody knows about it. Well, inside of it there is a country as big as this Jingalo of yours; and it belongs really to nobody. I have been all over it."