While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.
Allora Saint-John si allontanò meno da casa e mentre noi eravamo differentemente occupate egli continuava a imparar da sé una lingua orientale che credeva necessaria al compimento del suo disegno.