She, being of distinction, dwelt with the Hudson Bay party in the mission buildings.
We lived on here for a week, visiting back and forth in amity, as I must say.

I grew to like well enough those blunt young fellows of the Navy.
With young Lieutenant Peel especially I struck up something of a friendship.

If he remained hopelessly British, at least I presume I remained quite as hopelessly American; so that we came to set aside the topic of conversation on which we could not agree.
"There is something about which you don't know," he said to me, one evening.

"I am wholly unacquainted with the interior of your country.
What would you say, for instance, regarding its safety for a lady traveling across--a small party, you know, of her own?
I presume of course you know whom I mean ?" I nodded.

"You must mean the Baroness von Ritz." "Yes.