"Where I have been," he explained, "we help a first introduction with a little cordiality." He looked into his tea-cup, after he said that, with the air of a man who could say something more, if he had a little encouragement.

Of course, I encouraged him.

"I suppose shaking hands is much the same form in America that bowing is in England ?" I said, as suggestively as I could.
He looked up directly, and shook his head.

"We have too many forms in this country," he said.

"The virtue of hospitality, for instance, seems to have become a form in England.