“Let me begin in respectable fashion!
“A Jap girl is awfully formal.
“Do you know, Mr. Ellis, whom you are addressing?
“I am an Oriental.
“Nippon daughters believe ‘ev’rithin’ a gentleman mentions.
“They have been fooled enough, I should declare, in American fiction. Oscar—no, Mr. Ellis—don’t let me earn the anecdote that I drifted to Ameriky to be toyed with! My ancestor did a harakiri. I am pretty sure I have, then, to kill myself.
“Don’t recite again your honourable confession of love!
“It made me cry.
“My dark face with drenched eyes will degrade me to a hired Chinese ‘crying woman.’
“Your narration was dramatic.