It was just like an American novel.

Wayman was her name--Miss Carrie Wayman; perhaps you know her.

I forget the name of the town she came from, but it was somewhere in the western part of America.' No, Althea said, she did not know Miss Wayman, and she felt some little severity for the confusion that Miss Buchanan's remarks indicated.

With greater emphasis than before, she said that she did not know the West at all.
'It must be rather nice--plains and cowboys and Rocky Mountains,' Miss Buchanan said.

'I've a cousin on a ranch in Dakota, and I've often thought I'd like to go out there for a season; he says the riding is wonderful, and the scenery and flowers.