Mina ducked her head and chuckled softly. "I suppose it wasn't a very hard thing to discern, since my accent was rather strong when I responded to you."
She lifted her head and tried to cool the heat in her cheeks, though it was rather hard to do so, since the weather was so nice, she was having to explain her accent and she was being watched by so many strangers.
"I'm from Georgia, which is in southern America. I'm living with my aunt and uncle because my father wanted me to get a taste of his homeland." That wasn't true at all, but it was something the English were willing to accept. Most of them thought of America as rather rustic and uncivilized, convinced that England was a much more civilized nation. She had learned that very quickly after her arrival, and found it was easier to just go along with it than it was to convince anyone otherwise.