Then I explained about “my husband.”

We both laughed.

There is nothing more pleasing when in an alien country than a chit-chat in our native “becha becha.”

Japanese speech!

Such a beautifully indefinite, poetically untidy language!

I love it.

11th—It would be too much of a risk of one’s life to stay in Chicago.

Good-bye!

Flowerless, birdless city, sayonara!

Buffalo, 12th