“That’s liddle slang I learned at mission-house,” she said.
“I want you to send those presents back to this Yamashiro.”
“Send all those lovely presents back?”
She shook her head.
“Could not do it,” she said. “Too great sacrifice.”
“I will buy you all the things you want.”
She stared up at him amazedly.
“You?”
“Yes,” he replied, flushing, “I—why not?”
“Well, but”—she regarded him doubtfully—“you are not rich like Yamashiro Yoshida.”