Ku had wondered whether Park's northern accent would give him away, but he decided it would have to do. Luckily Continental employed plenty of drivers from Shan-tung.

Of all the queer collections of humans outside of a crazy asylum, it seemed to me this sanitarium was the cup winner. But, after all, I shouldn't have expected nothing different. When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose.

It had become what Peter Ackroyd calls, in London: The Biography, 'a mere counting house'. The biggest counting house in the world, mind you.

George and Harriet went to the stadium to see the ball game.