AUSTIN. Don't you think having _one_ in the family quick as chain lightning is enough? What have I missed this time, Jinny? You don't mean you've found a family likeness in the statue over there? I don't want to be unappreciative, but it doesn't suggest your father to me in the least,--nor even Geoffrey. JINNY. _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. It was the day we were married--I was waiting for you to come downstairs. JINNY. I think it's very funny Geof never said anything about it to _me_. AUSTIN. My dear, what time had _you_? You were _getting married_!! JINNY. I _was_! Thank heaven! I'm _so happy_, Jack! [_Snuggling up to him on the bench._ AUSTIN. [_Steals a little, quick hug with his arm about her waist._] Bless you, darling, I don't think there was ever a man as happy as I am! [_They start apart quickly as a GERMAN COUPLE enter Right, with a YOUNG DAUGHTER, who is munching a cake, and hanging, a tired and unwilling victim, to her mother's hand._ WOMAN. Ach! schoen! sehr schoen!! MAN. Groesses, nicht? WOMAN. _Yah!_ [_They stand admiring._ AUSTIN. By the way, when you answer your brother's letter, I wish you'd say I seemed surprised he was still in New York. JINNY. [_Reading._] Um--um-- MAN. [_Wiping his warm brow._] _Wunderbaum!_ WOMAN. _Yah!!_ [_They go out Left, talking._ JINNY. [_Looking up from her letter._] Oh! what do you think? AUSTIN. That you're the sweetest woman in the world. JINNY. No, _darling_, I mean _who_ do you think Geoffrey says is over here and in Italy? AUSTIN. I haven't the most remote idea! So far as _I've_ been able to observe there has been absolutely _no one_ in Italy but _you and me_. JINNY. If you keep on talking like that, I shall kiss you! AUSTIN. What! before the tall, white gentleman? [_Motioning to Apollo._] I am dumb.