She said that it differed from the English mainly in emphasis and pronunciation.

"For instance, the English say 'HALF past', and the Americans 'Half PAST'; the English say 'laht' and the Americans say 'late'." The weather had now been clear quite long enough, and it was raining again, a fine, bitter, piercing drizzle.

They asked the girl if it always rained in Ansbach; and she owned that it nearly always did.

She said that sometimes she longed for a little American summer; that it was never quite warm in Ansbach; and when they had got out into the rain, March said: "It was very nice to stumble on Chicago in an Ansbach book-store.

You ought to have told her you had a married daughter in Chicago.