“Have you come in answer to my advertisement?” he asked.
“I have,” replied Bernard. “I can see that you think me very young.”
“Well, certainly you are not very old,” returned Cunningham, smiling pleasantly. “How old are you?”
“Sixteen.”
“And I am twenty-three.”
“It is rather presumptuous in me to answer your advertisement, but there was no limitation of age.”
“True. You were quite justified in applying. You are not English?”
“No; I am an American.”
“So I judged. I know something of America. Two years since I spent six months in the States. I have seen most of your large cities, from New York to San Francisco.”
“I am sorry to say that my traveling has been very limited.”