Quote Her voice and manner were quite enough to arrest him where he stood with a pleased surprise in his fresh and ingenuous face. She looked at him more closely. He was in spite of his long silken mustache so absurdly young; he might in spite of that youth be so absurdly man-like! What was he doing there? Was he a farmer's son an artist a surveyor or a city clerk out for a holiday? Was there perhaps a youthful female of his species somewhere for whom he was waiting and upon whose tryst she was now breaking.