"Did it belong to that king?"
"Yes, I think so. It is in the city where I told you that king lived, Paris."
"Is this house in that city, too?" He indicated a building in the picture that showed the Pont Neuf.
"Yes." The mother laid down her sewing and stooped beside the boy. "And so is this house in Paris. And this. And this, too. All these houses are in Paris."
"Do all these people live there, the pretty ladies and soldiers?"
"They all did, I suppose."
"How many houses are there in Paris?"
"Oh, a great many thousand."
"More than there are in Carlisle?"
"Oh, yes! A hundred times more."