The father said, "Are there more black people besides her in her country?"
And the son, with an air of conviction, exclaimed, "Certainly!"
But the old man shook his head.
"This must be disagreeable?"
And the son:
"It isn't more disagreeable than anything else, seeing that you get used to it in no time."
The mother asked:
"It doesn't soil linen more than other skins, this black skin?"
"Not more than your own, as it is her proper color."
Then after many other questions, it was agreed that the parents should see this girl before coming to any decision and that the young fellow, whose period of services was coming to an end in the course of a month, should bring her to the house in order that they might examine her, and decide by talking the matter over whether or not she was too dark to enter the Boitelle family.