I hope you are a good smuggler, Miss Claiborne."
"I'd like to be. Women are supposed to have a knack at the business; but
my father is so patriotic that he makes me declare everything."
"Patriotism will carry one far; but I object both to being taxed and to
the alternative of corrupting the gentlemen who lie in wait at the
receipt of customs."
"Of course the answer is that Americans should buy at home," replied
Shirley. She received her change, and Armitage placed his small package
in his pocket.
"My brother expected to meet me here; he ran off with our carriage,"
Shirley explained.
"These last errands are always trying--there are innumerable things one
would like to come back for from mid-ocean, tariff or no tariff."
"There's the wireless," said Shirley. "In time we shall be able to commit
our afterthoughts to it. But lost views can hardly be managed that way.
After I get home I shall think of scores of things I should like to see
again--that photographs don't give."
"Such as--?"
"Oh--the way the Pope looks when he gives his blessing at St. Peter's;
and the feeling you have when you stand by Napoleon's tomb--the awfulness
of what he did and was--and being here in Switzerland, where I always
feel somehow the pressure of all the past of Europe about me.
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