You did not consider me an unappreciative Johnny, nor even a mediocre person! Who has, unknown to me, been trampling on your susceptibilities ?" "Nobody, thank goodness! I have never written a scene yet, of which I had not carefully verified every detail of the setting.

But it has happened lots of times to people I know.

Unimportant slips never seem to me to matter in another fellow's work, but they would matter desperately, horribly, appallingly in one's own.

Therefore, nothing will ever induce me to place the plot of a novel of mine, in surroundings with which I am not completely familiar.

Helen--I must go to Central Africa.".