34o A MODERN COMEDY
" By your eyes------"
" What ! Are they fishy ? "
Jon laughed.
4k Not exactly. They're like a water nymph's."
" I don't just know if that's a compliment."
'• Of course it is."
" I thought nymphs weren't respectable."
" Oh ! Water nymphs—very ! Shy, of course."
u Do you have many in England ? "
" No. As a matter of fact I've never seen one before."
" Then how do you know ? "
" Just a general sense of what's fitting."
" I suppose you had a classical education. Don't you all
have that in England ? "
" Far from it."
" And how do you like America, Mr. Forsyte ? "
" Very much. I get homesick sometimes."
" I'd love to travel."
fc< You never have ? "
She shook her head. " I just stay at home and look after
things. But I reckon we'll have to sell the old home—
cotton doesn't pay any more."
" I grow peaches near Southern Pines, you know, up in
North Carolina ; that's paying at present."
" Do you live there alone ? "
" No ; with my mother."
" Is she English ? "
" Yes."
" Have you a father ? "
" He died four years ago."
" Francis and I have been orphans ten years."
" I wish you'd both come and stay with us some day ;
my mother would be awfully glad."
" Is she like you ? "