ii2 MY AMERICAN FRIENDS

struck me with a little surprise, for I had been
told (but how many foolish things have I not
been told about Americans ?) that manners in
Arizona were crude as a buffalo's, whereas hers
were graceful as a fawn's—with manners, I say, as
charming as her person, and exactly fitted to it,
she grasped my hand and, continuing to hold it,
addressed me somewhat as follows:1

" Dr. Jacks! Is it you ? Really you, I mean ?
Not somebody pretending to be you ? I know
you, but you won't remember me, I'll tell you
who I am* I'm just the happiest girl in America!
The very happiest! And it's meeting you that
makes me so* Yes, sir. Do you remember
giving that lecture on ' Time-thinking' at the
Vacation Course in Oxford ? Well, I was there.
Took down every word you said about time-
thinking—I've got it all here in my bag if you'd
like to see it after we've talked—I learnt steno-
graphy at college. You told us that we should
learn to think in time as well as in space. Well,
I've learnt to think in time, though I'm not
perfect yet, and O my I it's made a new girLof
me* Till then I was all confused, but no^
I'm beginning to see my way. -' Gee! It's given
me a new attitude to life. And Dad's taken it
up, too, I gave him your book for a Christmas
present and he's just crazy about it* Quotes

* On reading over my notes of this conversation my impression
is that the original -was far more racy, on the lady's part, ti-^n my
version of it. I fear I have done her scant justice.