"It isn't the custom in Edelweiss.

Young men may chat with shopgirls all the world over--but in Edelweiss, no--unless they come to pay most honourable court to them.

My uncle would not understand." "I take it, however, that you would understand," he said boldly.
"I have lived in Vienna, in Paris and in London.

But now I am living in Edelweiss.

I have not been a shopgirl always." "I can believe that.