"She is beautiful, is she not?"
"It would be difficult to dispute that," my comrade answered. "I even believe that I can say that she is as intelligent as she is beautiful."
There was a pause. Morhange was calmly fingering the orichalch ring.
"
You know what our fate is to be?"
"I know. Le Mesge explained it to us yesterday in polite mythological terms. This evidently is an extraordinary adventure."
He was silent, then said, looking at me:
"I am very sorry to have dragged you here. The only mitigating feature is that since last evening you seem to have been bearing your lot very easily."
Where had Morhange learned this insight into the human heart? I did not reply, thus giving him the best of proofs that he had judged correctly.
"What do you think of doing?" I finally murmured.