“California gentleman isn’t privileged to raise one question against a lady. He is provided with all sorts of exclamations to please the woman. If he should ever miss one dinner with his wife, he would be divorced in court on the morrow.
“Uncle says that the Eastern gents are not so devoted to the lady.
“If it be true!
“Am I now entering the city of Man?
“How sad!
“Have you any experience of writing by the car-window?
“I feel a strange delight in scanning my romantically tremulous handwriting. A certain famous Jap penman takes wine before he begins, for the sake of putting his mind in a fine frenzy, as you know. The shaking of the car produces in me the same effect. Isn’t this letter great enough to be honoured on your tokonama?
“Can you ever imagine how vast Amerikey is?
“Yesterday our car ran all day long, over the mountains and prairies, seeing only a few huts.
“O such a snowstorm in the evening!