The botanist's glance would, under a subtle attraction, float back to Airolo. "It's queer," he would say quite idly, "but I never noticed that building there to the right before."
"Which building?"
"That to the right—with a queer sort of thing——"
"I see now. Yes. Yes, it's certainly an odd-looking affair.... And big, you know! Handsome! I wonder——"
That would interrupt our Utopian speculations. We should both discover that the little towns below had changed—but how, we should not have marked them well enough to know. It would be indefinable, a change in the quality of their grouping, a change in the quality of their remote, small shapes.