"But there are hopes of his conversion. He's to be at Versailles next week; and that's a good sign."
"Well, what about America?"
"Oh! America's chiefly English; and very like England."
"You mean she isn't republican?"
"Of course not. My dear Monsignor——"
"Please go on, as I asked you. Tell me when she ceased to be republican."
"Why, I scarcely know," murmured the priest. "It must have been about 1930, I suppose. I know there was a lot of trouble before that—civil wars and so forth. But at any rate that was the end. Japan got a good deal of the Far West; but the Eastern States came in with Canada and formed the American Colonies; and the South of course became Latinized, largely through ecclesiastical influence. Well, then America asked England——"
"Stop, please. I shall get bewildered. What about the religion?"
"Well, the Empire of Mexico——"
"Eh?"