"I do not think it likely that the Jerry I knew would be able to afford such presents," I said _rather stiffly_. You must know, Mr. Jerrolds, that we are still _old-fashioned_ in our ideas in England, and fail to realise the quick growth of your amazing American fortunes! She persisted, however, and to quiet her I told her that "my Jerry's" right name was Winfred Jerrolds. When she assured me that it _was_ "her Jerry" and described your appearance (exactly your father's, except that he required a _pince-nez_), I began to believe in the _strange coincidence_, and readily agreed to go home with her. She lived in a charming _appartement_ (I have forgotten the street, but they were _au cinquieme_, and there was a queer little hydraulic lift, which I refused to use, preferring my own feet) and she did the honours of it very prettily, upon the whole, like a child that is just learning, looking to her maid constantly for approval. This, frankly, did not seem right to me, Mr. Jerrolds. I may be _old-fashioned_, but I cannot think that a woman should learn _etiquette_ from her _maid_, and I must have showed my feeling in my face, for the girl, a capable one, I must say, blushed and said that in her opinion Madame required a governess, a _chaperon_, as it were, and that she believed Monsieur had it in his mind also. I could not help exclaiming that I knew of the _very person_, and most officiously, I know, I wrote down the address of a second cousin of mine, once removed, then in Paris by the merest chance. She is a Miss Jencks, Mr. Jerrolds, and of _unexceptionable_ family: her great-uncle a bishop, her father a retired army officer. She has been governess to the family of the Governor-General of Canada, thus, as you see, enabling her to know just what would be required in American society (the maid told me that Mr. Bradley was most _aristocratic_ and quite wealthy) and has always associated with the _best people_. She is plain, but refined, and unusually well educated, being in Paris now for special art study. She would be moderate in her charges, I am sure, and would take a _real interest_ in young Mrs. Bradley, for she deeply enjoys forming character and manners and has always been considered _most successful_ at it. I wrote down the address of her _pension_ and left it with the maid, telling her, so that Mr. Bradley would not think me _too_ forward, that I was an old friend of your mother. Do, if you write to him, say a good word for Miss Jencks, for I am sure he will never regret engaging her.