Count Otto Vogelstein, a young German diplomat bound for Washington, watches American passengers board his steamer at Southampton and soon meets Pandora Day, a girl who has made her own way in society despite her plain parents. In Washington he tries, with Teutonic thoroughness, to decide what kind of creature the self-made American girl may be.
A witty 1884 novella of international manners, a companion piece to Daisy Miller. Download the free EPUB.