And it is just that attribute which the modern young man, as a rule, so sadly lacks. From boyhood up he had always been interested in things that were none of his business. He had frequently suspected this to be the case, but it had required the actual experiment to bring certainty.Īlmost more than physical courage, the ideal adventurer needs a certain lively inquisitiveness, the quality of not being content to mind his own affairs and in Ashe this quality was highly developed.
With the starting of the train, which might be considered the formal and official beginning of the delicate and dangerous enterprise on which he had embarked, he had definitely come to the conclusion that the life adventurous was the life for him. He wished he had not bought Joan that magazine and thus deprived himself temporarily of the pleasure of her conversation but that was the only flaw in his happiness. But for these social distinctions, the whole fabric of society would collapse and anarchy stalk naked through the land-as in the United States.Īshe was feeling remarkably light-hearted. In English trains the tipping classes travel first valets, lady's maids, footmen, nurses, and head stillroom maids, second and housemaids, grooms, and minor and inferior stillroom maids, third. Still farther along the corridor, in a first-class non-smoking compartment, Aline Peters looked through the window and thought of many things. Along the corridor, in a first-class smoking compartment, Mr. Opposite him Joan Valentine had begun to read a magazine.
The four-fifteen express slid softly out of Paddington Station and Ashe Marson settled himself in the corner seat of his second-class compartment.
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