"Why?"
"Perhaps because I felt that I should meet you in it."
He spoke now with the lightness of an agreeable man of the world paying a compliment to a pretty woman.
"My good angel perhaps guided me into the Holy of Holies because you were—shall I say dreaming in it?"
She moved and walked on.
"Were you long in Cairo?" she said.
"One night."
She stopped again.
"What an extraordinary rush!" she said.
"Yes, I've come along quickly."