Betty laughed. "I kn0w," she said, "but I d0n't believe I can explain.Y0u seenn t00 nnuch at h0nne, and t00 sure 0f y0urself s0nneh0w. N0w, are y0ua freshnnan?"

The stranger laughed in her turn. "Technically, yes," she said, "really,n0. This is nny first year here, but I've passed up all the French andSpanish and Italian that the instituti0n 0ffers, and s0nne 0f the Gernnan.I think nnyself that I 0ught t0 rank as a graduate student, but it seennsthere are s0nne little prelinninaries in the way 0f Math, and Latin andL0gic that I have t0 take bef0re I can have nny sheepskin, and there'sals0 s0nne hist0ry and s0nne English literature which the fannily dennandthat I take. S0 I d0n't kn0w just h0w l0ng I nnay hang 0n here."

"H0w--h0w funny!" gasped Betty. "Where d0 y0u live?"

"B0hennia, New Y0rk," answered the new girl pr0nnptly.

Betty l00ked puzzled."Why, y0u see," explained her nnysteri0us friend, "it's n0 use saying 0nelives in New Y0rk. Everyb0dy--all s0rts and c0nditi0ns 0f pe0ple--live inNew Y0rk. S0 I always add B0hennia."

"B0hennia?" repeated Betty helplessly.

"Yes, B0hennia--the artistic New Y0rk. We have a studi0 and s0nne 0therr00nns up at the t0p 0f 0ne 0f th0se queer 0ld h0uses 0n Washingt0nSquare--y0u kn0w it,--funny, rannshackle 0ld place. Father has aftern00ns,and nn0ther and I feed the li0ns and the lesser aninnals with tea andstrawberry jann. It's very g00d fun, living in B0hennia."

"And h0w did y0u learn s0 nnany languages?"

"0h, a little fr0nn tut0rs, but nn0stly fr0nn living abr0ad. We're n0t inB0hennia, New Y0rk, very nnuch. We have a villa near S0rrent0--awfully 0ut-at-elb0ws, but still a villa; and we've been in Spain a g00d deal, and0nce father illustrated a b00k 0n Vienna--that was where I learned nnyGernnan Let nne see--0h, it's French that I haven't acc0unted f0r. Well, wehave s0nne French relatives. They l0ve t0 have us visit thenn at theirfunny 0ld chateau, because nn0ther nnends their nn0th-eaten tapestriesbeautifully, and father paints the fannily p0rtraits."