Then I made a mistake.” What ‘mistake’ did the speaker make? Why was it a ‘mistake’? What removed the speaker’s doubts? What did the speaker do then?

Then I made a mistake.”What ‘mistake’ did the speaker make? Why was it a ‘mistake’? What removed the speaker’s doubts? What did the speaker do then?

The speaker made a mistake by asking a wrong question.

The narrator and the girl was talking about the beauty of the hills. After that the girl was silent for sometime. The narrator thought that his words might have touched her or she might have thought her fellow passenger to be a romantic fool. He could not remain silent and blurted “ what is it like outside?”. Since he never expected to reveal his visual disease, it was a bungle on his part to ask someone how it was outside.

Soon the speaker’s doubts and fears melted away when the girl asked him to look out of the window himself.

The speaker moved effectively along the billet and felt for the window sill.