Excerpt from Stranded in Arcady<br><br>When he put his hand to the cramped neck muscle and moved to escape the bedazzling sun reflection, the changed point of view gave him a Shock. Sitting with her back to a tree at a little distance was a strange young woman-strange in the sense that he was sure he had never seen her before. Like himself, she had evidently just awakened, and she was staring at him out of wide-open, slate-gray eyes. In the eyes he saw a vast bewilderment comparable to his own, some thing Of alarm, and a trace of subconscious embarrassment as she put her hands to her hair, which was sadly tumbled.<br><br>Prime scrambled to his feet and said, Good morning - merely because the conventions, in whatever surroundings, die hard. At this the young woman got up, too, patting and pinning the rebellious hair into subjection.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.