"I don't think I know what you mean," she said, looking at him.

"I know you don't," he said, patiently; "let me begin a little farther back. I am a sculptor. You know, of course, what that is——"

"Yes. I am educated." She even found courage to smile at him.

His answering smile covered both confusion and surprise; then perplexity etched a crease between his brows.

"That makes it rather harder for me"—he hesitated—"or easier; I don't know which."

"What makes it harder?" she asked.

"Your being—I don't know—different—from what I imagined——"

"Educated?"

"Y-yes——"