Then you knew my mother ?" "Oh, dear me, no! I never even met her.

Why THEN ?" Her look was mischievous.

"But, unless I mistake, I think she came from Hendre Coed, near Bangor." "Wales is a village!" I exclaimed, catching my breath.

"Every Welsh person seems to know all about every other." My new acquaintance smiled again.

When she smiled she was irresistible: a laughing face protruding from a cloud of diaphanous drapery.