Why not South Carolina, then, if she chooses?
Another man is reading a book of poems and talking at intervals to a companion.

I hear him say that a Mr.
Willis is one of the world's greatest poets.

I glance at the book and see the name Nathaniel Parker Willis.

Also it seems Willis is the editor of one of the world's greatest literary journals.

It is published in New York and is called the _New York Mirror_....