Morris doesn’t always speak slang⁠—that is to say, he never does so to strangers or before them, for he is really well educated and has exquisite manners⁠—but he found out that it amused me to hear him talk American slang, and whenever I was present, and there was no one to be shocked, he said such funny things. I am afraid, my dear, he has to invent it all, for it fits exactly into whatever else he has to say. But this is a way slang has. I do not know myself if I shall ever speak slang; I do not know if Arthur likes it, as I have never heard him use any as yet. Well,

Mr.