"At home in America?" I said. "I do not feel about it as my
parents do."
"You side with the North!"
"I have lived there so much. I know the view taken there; and
it seems to me the right one. And I have lived at the South
too; and I do not like the view held there, - nor the practice
followed."
"There are some things I can fancy you would not like," he
said musingly. "I have not known what to think. It seems to me
they have made a false move. But it seems to me they must
succeed."
"I don't know," I said. "Perhaps."
He looked at me a little hard, and then we left the hermits'
caves and went down the plain to our encampment.