"My mother says I must not love young and handsome gentleman."
"Why?" I asked.
"Because young and handsome gentleman changes his heart."
"Well, I suppose I fill the bill."
"Yess," she said, "you are a little handsome and a little old."
"But you aren't going to love anybody, you are going to school."
"Yess," said Kamura-san obediently.
Once more that night I tried to explain that we did not rob cradles in America, and again she looked dreamy and seemed to understand, but when I started to go, she beckoned me behind a screen: