"That is not an answer."
"Let us say twenty years, then."
"Always at Paris?"
"The time before that did not count."
"Then you have not been always at Paris?"
"Heavens, no! First at Bordeaux; but for ten years at Paris."
"You are well-known there?"
"Ask my neighbours in the Rue des Chantiers; or cross the street to the wine-market and ask any one there if he knows André Chevrial! Well known? But yes!"
"Is this your first visit to America?"
"Oh, no; nor my second. But it is my first trip on a boat of Germany, and will be my last. On the French boats, my compatriots know me. They do not annoy me with all these questions."