What delicious cream-tarts these are, to be sure! They remind one of the Arabian Nights.

In Persia, by the way, they put pepper in them." "Oh dear! I don't think I should like that at all," exclaimed Aunt Charlotte, naively.

"And have you really been in Persia?
You must have enjoyed that very much.

I suppose you saw some magnificent scenery in your wanderings ?" "Oh, magnificent, magnificent," assented the great traveller.
"Mountains, forests, castles, glaciers, and everything you can think of.

But I've never got quite as far as Persia, you understand, and just at present I feel more interested in England.