"Still I can not understand how he made it pay for everything."
"No, it isn't easy to understand that, is it?"
"Venice! Rome! Monte Carlo! How you must have enjoyed your journey!"
"Oscar did--every day of it."
"And you, Thora?"
"I'm not a good traveler--I soon tire of sight-seeing, and if it hadn't been for Helga----"
"So you are not sorry you took Helga with you?"
Thora faltered a little and then said, "Helga was able to go sight-seeing with Oscar when I had to stay in the hotel."
"But were you not lonely while they were away?"
"Perhaps--sometimes--just a little--being so much alone, and among so many strange faces."