ABSTRACT
SHE is so frolicsome, jolly, and good-natured, and above all she delights so much in pleasing, that globe-trotters, the “transients” of Japan, misunderstand the “musume,” while she is too innocent to understand their views of her. They think she cannot say “no,” but she can. They think, too, that complacency is the law of her life. There they are right and wrong, for she accepts what her conscience tells her is her duty with a resignation that has the outward aspect of complacency, but she is far indeed from being complacent with infringements of those proprieties that are natural to the social conditions of her far-distant land.
