To a certain point Rowland agreed with her, but he demurred, to make her say more.
"Would n't it be better," she asked, "to work to get reconciled to America, than to go to Europe to get reconciled to idleness ?" "Doubtless; but you know work is hard to find." "I come from a little place where every one has plenty," said Miss Garland.

"We all work; every one I know works.

And really," she added presently, "I look at you with curiosity; you are the first unoccupied man I ever saw." "Don't look at me too hard," said Rowland, smiling.

"I shall sink into the earth.

What is the name of your little place ?" "West Nazareth," said Miss Garland, with her usual sobriety.