That's why I can't talk about 'em.
I'm like a navigator adrift on a strange sea without chart or compass.
Now I want to get my bearin's.

Mebbe you can put me right.

How did you learn all this you've ben talkin' ?" "By going to school, I fancy, and by studying," she answered.
"I went to school when I was a kid," he began to object.
"Yes; but I mean high school, and lectures, and the university." "You've gone to the university ?" he demanded in frank amazement.

He felt that she had become remoter from him by at least a million miles.
"I'm going there now.

I'm taking special courses in English." He did not know what "English" meant, but he made a mental note of that item of ignorance and passed on.
"How long would I have to study before I could go to the university ?" he asked.
She beamed encouragement upon his desire for knowledge, and said: "That depends upon how much studying you have already done.