"In a few days I suppose I must leave London again."
"Oh! are you going abroad?"
"Yes, to Constantinople. I live there," he said.
"In Constantinople! How very strange it must be to live among the
Turks!"
"It is a very charming life, I assure you, Miss Rolfe," he answered.
"The Turk is always a gentleman, and his country is full of beauty and
attraction, even though his capital may be muddy under foot."
"Oh, well," she said laughing, "I don't think I should care to live
there. I should be afraid of them!"
"Your fears would be quite ungrounded," he declared. "A lady can walk
unmolested in the streets of Constantinople at any hour of the day or
night, which cannot be said, of your London here."