"You shall tell me how much better the young women of your country behave than the young women of mine." "Thank you," she replied, "I am never interested in the doings of a democracy.

Your country makes no appeal to me at all." "Come," he protested, "that's a little too bad.

Why, Russia may be a democracy some day, you know.

You very nearly had a republic foisted upon you after the Japanese war." "You are quite mistaken," she assured him.

"Russia would never tolerate a republic." "Russia will some day have to do like many other countries," he answered firmly,--"obey the will of the people." "Russia has nothing in common with other countries," she asserted.
"There was never a nation yet in which the aristocracy was so powerful." "It's only a matter of time," he declared, nonchalantly.
She shrugged her shoulders.
"You represent ideas of which I do not approve," she told him.
"I don't care a fig about any ideas," he replied.