But you must admit that America is better than you have supposed." "I have not a fault to find with the country which produced you!" Rowland thought he might risk this, smiling.
"And yet you want me to change--to assimilate Europe, I suppose you would call it." "I have felt that desire only on general principles.

Shall I tell you what I feel now?
America has made you thus far; let America finish you! I should like to ship you back without delay and see what becomes of you.

That sounds unkind, and I admit there is a cold intellectual curiosity in it." She shook her head.

"The charm is broken; the thread is snapped! I prefer to remain here." Invariably, when he was inclined to make of something they were talking of a direct application to herself, she wholly failed to assist him; she made no response.

Whereupon, once, with a spark of ardent irritation, he told her she was very "secretive." At this she colored a little, and he said that in default of any larger confidence it would at least be a satisfaction to make her confess to that charge.