16/33 You cannot make any excuse she will not see through. Your father will call on Mr.Mostyn to-morrow, and we shall get unprejudiced information." "Oh, I don't know that, Ruth. Father is intensely American three hundred and sixty-four days and twenty-three hours in a year, and then in the odd hour he will flare up Yorkshire like a conflagration." "English, you mean ?" "No. Yorkshire IS England to grandmother and father. They don't think anything much of the other counties, and people from them are just respectable foreigners. |