_Stupid!!_ Of course it doesn't _suggest_ anybody to me--I was
only thinking I sympathized with Mrs. Perkins of Boston,--don't you know
the old story about her?
AUSTIN. No, what was it?
JINNY. [_After a quick look around to see that they are alone._]
Well--Mrs. Perkins from Boston was personally conducted here once and
shown this very statue, and she looked at it for a few moments, and then
turned around and said, "Yes, it's all right, but give _me Perkins_!"
AUSTIN. Jinny!
[_Laughing._
JINNY. Are you shocked? Come, I'm tired; let's sit down here and read my
letters--there's one from Geof.
[_They sit on the bench at Right, and JINNY takes out a letter from
GEOFFREY._
AUSTIN. I'll read ahead in Baedeker and you tell me if there's any news.
[_He opens the Baedeker and reads, and she opens and reads the letter._]
Where is Geof's letter from?
JINNY. New York, of course; where else would it be?
AUSTIN. I had an idea he was going away.
JINNY. Geof! Where?
AUSTIN. West, a good way somewhere.
JINNY. But _why_ would he go West?
AUSTIN. Oh, he had some business, I believe; I remember thinking it was
a good idea when he told me.
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