(“There are lots of exceptions, of course, like honourable you and Miss M. G.)
“I am talking of common Jap musumes.
“Naturally so.
“They are like those waiting at the station for the next train. They have only to doze and wait for the footsteps of a matchmaker with a young man.
“I am grateful to the Nippon government for stimulating education in women.
“But I advise her to imprison all the matchmakers. Then the girls will wake up at once, like one who has everything on her back after papa’s passing.
“That is one process to brighten them, I think.
“Am I not logical?
“Your last tegami questioned me whether the American lady was charming.
“Are you attentive to western sea painting?