Then she stared at her friend with wide-open eyes, the expression of which betokened the birth of an amazing idea.

"Why--you can," she declared.
"I've just thought of the nicest way.

Will you come, Emma?
Will you ?" "It depends on the exact spot where the pleasure of my company is requested," returned Emma waggishly.

"If it is to Kamptchatka--no, most decidedly.

I have no insane craving for life among the heathen, and that 'no' includes the Malay Archipelago and darkest Africa.