MRS. TILSBURY. Oh, no! Remember you promised to help me!
MRS. BROWN. Well, which is the most dangerous? The anti for me, but a girl’s taste may be different. Well, here I go. (She walks over to Mildred and the two men and addresses Mr. Van Tousel.) I think I went to school with a sister of yours, Mr. Van Tousel.
MR. VAN TOUSEL. (Sulky at being interrupted.) Very likely, Mrs. Brown.
MRS. BROWN. At Mrs. Read’s,—Augusta Van Tousel. I think she must have been your sister. Van Tousel is such an uncommon name.
MR. VAN TOUSEL. (Becoming more interested.) There are only three in the telephone directory, my mother and myself and a cousin of my father’s. There is another family that spell the name T-o-u-s-l-e instead of e-l; but I do not know anything about them.
MRS. BROWN. Your sister has married, has she not?
MR. VAN TOUSEL. Yes, she married a German and lives in Berlin. She is not interested in “the cause,” I regret to say.
MRS. BROWN. She was very much interested in American History when she was in school, probably because she had so many ancestors who helped to make it.
MR. VAN TOUSEL. Yes, we are descended from three Colonial Governors, two Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and six Generals.