"Where are you from?" I asked. "Where do you come from?" "I'm a myth," she replied, with her coquetry. "But what part of the world do you come from? Or are you a universal myth?" "I was born in Minnesota," -- I could see it was a reluctant confession -- "but I have lived in the east since I was fourteen." "Have you got any Irish blood?" "My father was born in Ireland -- in County Galway. My mother's people came from Sweden." "Then you are a universal myth: you're Brunhilde and Iseult in one. I think you're really more like Iseult, though. But Iseult's eyes are blue, of course. Yours are much more exciting. Close them -- let me see how they look."
