And what did it look like--America?
How was it different from Italy?
Constance described the sky-scrapers in New York.
His wonder was intense.

A building twenty stories high! _Dio mio_! He should hate to mount himself up all those stairs.

Were the buildings like that in the country too?
Did the shepherds live in houses twenty stories high?
'Oh no,' she laughed.

'In the country the houses are just like these, only they are made of wood instead of stone.' 'Of wood ?' He opened his eyes.

'But, signorina, do they never burn ?' He had another question to ask.