A. Cane bottomed.
Q. Straight back or curved?
A. Slightly curved.
Q. You write easily?
A. Oh very! Why, it’s just dead easy. Goodness me! What did the old-fashioned author do with his time, I’d like to know. We read that they wrote and scratched out and groaned and sweat; why I can’t understand it. I drop the sheets on floor with my left hand, (Mr. G. “Got that Powers? With her left hand.”) like clock work, a sheet every five minutes, twelve sheets an hour. Six thousand words per day.
Mr. G. Just think of it. A most prolific pen.
P. Yes, the female pen is often very prolific.
Q. Do you have moods, Mrs. Fadd?
Mrs. F. Why, as to grammar—
Mr. G. I mean the other kind of moods.