"That is not how it is at home," returned Lois. "It is different there."
"People are not all alike?"
"No indeed. Perfectly unlike, and individual."
"How agreeable! So that is one of the things that strike you here? the contrast?"
"No," said Lois, laughing; "I find here the same variety that I find at home. People are not alike to me."
"But different, I suppose, from the varieties you are accustomed to at home?"
Lois admitted that.
"Well, now tell me how. I have never travelled in New England; I have travelled everywhere else. Tell me, won't you, how those whom you see here differ from the people you see at home."
"In the same sort of way that a sea-gull differs from a land sparrow,"
Lois answered demurely.
"I don't understand. Are we like the sparrows, or like the gulls?"