“A little.”
“I’m sorry.”
“I supposed that you had made up your mind that it was not worth writing after all.”
“It was worth writing.”
“But not worth printing?”
“Worth printing, too. But the editors were afraid of offending the Germans. So they killed it.”
“Did you write it in that way?”
“What way?”
“To offend the Germans.”
“No. I wrote it to show that there was a place for Americanism even in a German meeting.”