Once, explaining to an acquaintance why she and her husband had abandoned "family estates in the North of England," exchanging the hereditary home-"the jolliest, oh, the prettiest old priory"-for an old and highly un-jolly farm-house on the plains of western Kansas, Mrs. Warren-Browne said:
Behin batean, ezagun bati azaltzen ari zela "Ingalaterra Iparraldeko beren etxaldea" zergatik abandonatu zuten, beren jaiotetxearen truke-"abatetxerik ederrena, oi, pollitena"-Kansas Mendebaldeko lautadetako nekazari-etxe zahar eta itsusi bat hartuz, Warren-Browne andreak esan zuen: