"You are studying?"
"I do a composition every day, on any subject, sometimes I write a little story. I try to write my life for the teacher, but he says I am too ambitious."
"Do you love your Ruthenian brothers and sisters here?"
"No; I prefer the Great Russians."
"You're a very handsome young man. I expect you've got a young lady in your mind now. Is she an American, or one of your own people? Does she live here, or did you leave her away over there, in Europe?"
"I don't think of them. I shall, however, marry a Russian girl."
"Have you many friends here?"
"Very many."
"You will take me to them?"
"Oh yes, with pleasure."