"You see, it enables you to be identified.

It gives your address at 'ome.

But I do not think that you can get one now--no, it is a thing that one must get in one's own country, or, at any rate," she corrected herself, "in a country where you 'ave resided a long time." "What is your country, Madame ?" asked Sylvia.

"Are you French?
I suppose Monsieur Wachner is German ?" Madame Wachner shook her head.
"Oh, 'e would be cross to 'ear that! No, no, Fritz is Viennese--a gay Viennese! As for me, I am"-- she waited a moment--"well, Madame, I am what the French call '_une vraie cosmopolite_'-- oh, yes, I am a true citizeness of the world.".