“Where is it?” she cried.
“That’s what I want to know,” said the model. “You’ve studied geography, Emma, and you ought to know. Where is a town called Cac—Cac—Carac—Caracas City, I think they called it?”
“How dare you wake me up for that?” said the school-teacher. “Caracas is in Venezuela, of course.”
“What’s it like?”
“Why, it’s principally earthquakes and negroes and monkeys and malarial fever and volcanoes.”
“I don’t care,” said Miss Asher blithely; “I’m going there to-morrow.”