“At home?” Minkie raised her large blue eyes so innocently. I knew exactly how she looked, and I rattled my harness to tell her I was listening.
“Yes; in England, I mean.”
“Ah.”
“Don’t you call England ‘home,’ too?”
“Of course, but I live here.”
“So do I.”
“Sorry. I fancied you just said you had been in some other country for a long time.”
“Well, I’m a bit of a cosmopolitan, I admit. Do you know what a cosmopolitan is?”
“It means anything but English.”
Mr. Schwartz roared. “Gad!” he cried, “that is not so far wrong.”