Ran it into the ground.Tiresome.

Good-night.
Presently I shall disclose more plainly to you the moral of my Salisbury anecdote.
Is it their discretion, do you think, that closes the lips of the French when they visit our shores?
Not from the French do you hear prompt aspersions as to our differences from them.

They observe that proverb about being in Rome: they may not be able to do as Rome does, but they do not inquire why Rome isn't like Paris.

If you ask them how they like our hotels or our trains, they may possibly reply that they prefer their own, but they will hardly volunteer this opinion.

But the American in England and the Englishman in America go about volunteering opinions.
Are the French more discreet?
I believe that they are; but I wonder if there is not also something else at the bottom of it.