“Japan is quite a big place,” remarked her husband, suggestively. “He has rather large quarters for one fellow, don’t you think?”

“Japan liddle bit country,” she argued, trying to change the subject. “America, perhaps, grade big place, big as half the whole worl’—”

“Not quite,” interposed her husband, smiling.

“Well, big’s one-quarter of the worl’, anyhow,” she declared. “Bud Japan! Mos’ liddle bit insignificant spot on all the beautiful maps.”

“What part of Japan does your family live in?”

“Liddle bit town two hundled miles north of Tokyo.”

“Indeed.”

She had spoken the truth, he knew.

“Why doesn’t your brother come to see you?”

Now that he had commenced it, he stuck to his catechism doggedly.