The White Causeway

Excerpt from The White CausewayHE volunteered to point out the mountains to her, and to give to every one of them its name. She said it would be so kind of him. She wanted to have every mountain in Switzerland pointed out to her and to learn its name. He looked as if he wished for no better em ployment, and he expressed himself to this effect with the air of a devout microscopist anxious to make revela tions of the infinitely small....