You laughed, and said, “How strangely the world is tied together in these days, that the speech of an English prime minister about some Asian septs should give a German author entrée to New York editorial sanctums!”
“The cables have done more in aid of the brotherhood of man than all the efforts of the missionaries.”
“I thought you were a conservative, and disapproved of modern innovations,” you suggested archly.
“With innovators, yes.”
“Then the Levantine does not entirely disapprove of our Hesperian city?”
“My knowledge of New York is about as deep,” I answered, smiling, “as my Eastern blood.”
“Only skin-deep,” you said.
“Just sufficient for a disguise.”
“As long as you are silent, yes.”
“Is my English so unmistakable?”