This give-and-take conversation proved too much for me.

<font size="+1">Is it on the other side of <a hreF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hakone">Hakone</a> or not?</font>

I'm going to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku">Shikoku branch</a>! There seems to be no "bamboo candy"!

I've heard "bamboo candy" of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echigo_Province">Echigo province</a> tastes good. Sasa-ame (笹飴, bamboo candy) is millet candy wrapped in bamboo leaves.

...I will come back next summer. Will bring you back a surprise. What do you like?

I shall let the house proposition go for some time, as I have to go to the country!

Oh, Master Darling, when do you begin housekeeping?

I called upon her three days previous to my departure. She was sick abed in a small room.