And besides," she added, with prettily repressed enthusiasm, "there is the shadowy procession of all the people that have gone before, and we can see that you are a good deal like them, though they are more interesting still.

It is very pictorial." She stopped suddenly and consciously, as if she had said too much, and Janet felt that she was suggestively apologized to.
"Doesn't the phenomenal squash make up for all that ?" she asked.

"It would to me.

I'm dying to see the phenomenal squash, and the prodigious water-melon, and--" "And the falls of Niagara ?" Elfrida put in, with the faintest turning down of the corners of her mouth.

"I'm afraid our wonders are chiefly natural, and largely vegetable, as you say." "But they are wonders.