You irritate me so that you might almost be a Prussian.
But it is obvious that you are of a new nation that is beginning to find itself." "Oh, we are to inherit the earth, if that is what you mean," she said.
"The phrase is comprehensive," I said.

I was determined not to give myself away.

"Where in the world do you come from ?" I repeated.

The question, I was quite conscious, would have sufficed, but in the hope, I suppose, of establishing my intellectual superiority, I continued: "You know, fair play's a jewel.

Now I'm quite willing to give you information as to myself.