Chapter III

"Are you having an easy time with yours?"

"Moderate. Only Jack behaves so badly. After every meal Monsieur always begins a long speech about their indebtedness to us and all the rest of it, and Jack will walk out in the middle."

"What do you talk about?"

"Well, for the most part about the terrible privations before they got away. But now and then they will tell _risqué_ stories. More than _risqué_--really shocking. Jack does his best to get them off it, but he never succeeds. They seem to think we expect it."

"Oh, ours aren't a bit like that. The trouble with ours is that they hate going out. They sit tight indoors from morning to night."

"Can't you lure them out?"

"Well, I tell them what a wonderful place the British Museum is; but it's no use."