“Where, then, is your birthplace?”

“I was born at Geneva.”

“You don’t call Frances and Evans Swiss names, I presume?”

“No, sir; they are English names.”

“Just so; and is it the custom of the Genevese to give their children English appellatives?”

“Non, Monsieur; mais—”

“Speak English, if you please.”

“Mais—”

“English—”

“But” (slowly and with embarrassment) “my parents were not all the two Genevese.”