“Will it be the same with our baby?” she asked, earnestly.
“Would you have it so?” was his question.
She thought a moment, and then she said: “Yes—yes, indeed. Who would not? Even our Billy is affected.”
“Billy has inquired most earnestly of me whether when he grew up he could be a Japanese soldier, and I told him he would have to be a Japanese citizen first. He said his father—meaning me—was Japanese, and he would be whatever he was!”
“And so he will be,” said she, earnestly.
“But we will wait till he is a man to decide that,” said her husband.
