“Native of France,” I wrote. Then aloud s “Of French parents?”
“Yes, I am French by descent and by place of birth. But I have lived in America all my life. I was brought here when I was two years old.”
“But you speak French, I take it?”
“I speak French and English with equal ease.”
“Any other language?”
“No other.”
“How old are you, if you will forgive my asking?”
“I shall be six-and-twenty on the eighth of August.”
“Are your parents living?”
“Both my father and mother are long since dead.”