have reciprocated one’s affection?”
Winterbourne offered no answer to this question; but he presently said,
“You were right in that remark that you made last summer. I was booked
to make a mistake. I have lived too long in foreign parts.”
Nevertheless, he went back to live at Geneva, whence there continue to
come the most contradictory accounts of his motives of sojourn: a report
that he is “studying” hard--an intimation that he is much interested in
a very clever foreign lady.