Rosy was their one American, and she disappeared from their view so soon that she had not time to make any lasting impression.

I am asking myself how difficult, or how simple, it will be to quite understand these people, and to make them understand me.

I greatly doubt its being simple.

Layers and layers and layers of centuries must be far from easy to burrow through.

They look simple, they do not know that they are not simple, but really they are not.