answered, "and the other
is Jerry, that is a man."

"Jerry? Jerry?" I repeated, for it sounded strangely
familiar.

"Yes. Do you know him, too?" she asked eagerly.

"I am afraid not," I said, "but it so happens that I once
knew a baby boy whom his mother called Jerry many years ago,
in England."

"_My_ Jerry gave me this pearl," she said, and she showed me
a beautiful pearl which she wore.

"I do not think it likely that the Jerry I knew would be
able to afford such presents," I said _rather stiffly_. You
must know, Mr. Jerrolds, that we are still _old-fashioned_
in our ideas in England, and fail to realise the quick
growth of your amazing American fortunes!

She persisted, however, and to quiet her I told her that "my
Jerry's" right name was Winfred Jerrolds. When she assured
me that it _was_ "her Jerry" and described your appearance
(exactly your father's, except that he required a
_pince-nez_), I began to believe in the _strange
coincidence_, and readily agreed to go home with her. She
lived in a charming _appartement_ (I have forgotten the
street, but they were _au cinquieme_, and there was a queer
little hydraulic lift, which I refused to use, preferring my
own feet) and she did the honours of it very prettily, upon
the whole, like a child that is just learning, looking to
her maid constantly for approval.

This, frankly, did not seem right to me, Mr. Jerrolds. I may
be _old-fashioned_, but I cannot think that a woman should
learn _etiquette_ from her _maid_, and I must have showed
my feeling in my face, for the girl, a capable one, I must
say, blushed and said that in her opinion Madame required a
governess, a _chaperon_, as it were, and that she believed
Monsieur had it in his mind also. I could not help
exclaiming that I knew of the _very person_, and most
officiously, I know, I wrote down the address of a second
cousin of mine, once removed, then in Paris by the merest
chance.

She is a Miss Jencks, Mr. Jerrolds, and of _unexceptionable_
family: her great-uncle a bishop, her father a retired army
officer. She has been governess to the family of the
Governor-General of Canada, thus, as you see, enabling her
to know just what would be required in American society (the
maid told me that M