But you belong to a generation of which our forefathers were a part.

We know all about it; the names of many of its members are household words with us.

We have made a study of your ways of living and thinking; nothing you say or do surprises us, while we say and do nothing which does not seem strange to you.

So you see, Mr.West, that if you feel that you can, in time, get accustomed to us, you must not be surprised that from the first we have scarcely found you strange at all." "I had not thought of it in that way," I replied.

"There is indeed much in what you say.