I saw no city till I entered college.

I had fashioned cities for myself long before then, and dwelt in them." The girl had taken her place at the tea-table.

Burton's eyes followed her admiringly.
"You were brought up in the country ?" he asked his host.
"I was born in the City of Strange Imaginings," Mr.Cowper replied.

"I read and read until I had learned the real art of fancy.

No one who has ever learned it needs to look elsewhere for a dwelling house.