Her eyes wandered about the room.
"Everything just the same."
"Then Africa really has made a great difference?"
The alert look that Mrs. Mansfield knew so well came into Charmian's face despite her fatigue.
"Who thought it would?"
"Well, you've never been out of Europe before."
"You did?"
"Wouldn't it be natural if I had fancied it might?"
"Perhaps. But it was only the very edge of Africa. I never went beyond Mustapha Supérieur. I didn't even want to go. I wonder if Susan Fleet did."
"Do you think so?"