“Must I praise them to the skies?”
“Well, Sensei, he is growing old and compliments gladden him.”
“I may go about it lightly then.”
“You may be generous into the bargain.”
“Ha, ha, ha, ha. Pardon my observing that you do not speak the country-side language.”
“Not in language, but in person, you mean?”
“In personality it is better for one to be of the countryside.”
“Then I may give myself airs?”
“But you have lived in Tokyo?”
“Yes, I have been there, and also in Kyoto. I am a bird of passage and I have been in many places.”