My mother is interested in Red Cross work, you know, and the old Madame has a connection with the French branch of that service.
Most of the material the ladies of Scranton have been getting ready is sent abroad through the queer old lady, who, they say, once used to queen it at the court of Louis Napoleon.

She's over eighty years of age now, but quite rich, I've been told.

And if you've never been in her house you'd be interested in seeing how she lives.

That wonderful green parrot of hers can rattle off a whole string of songs and sayings.

It almost gives you the creeps to hear Jocko performing, for it strikes you as what Andy McGuffey would call uncanny.