Dr. Henrietta Interest, accompanied by her son, Ronald Interest, and his daughter, Dr. Jennifer Interest, arrived in town yesterday from abroad. The three were met at the airport by the university president, Benito Corsetti, and his staff, and Maisie Proops, at whose guest house they will be staying during their visit. The elder Dr. Interest showed no signs of her recent illness. She spoke for a short while with Dr. Corsetti and then appeared to trade a series of ribald jokes with Ms. Proops before the group entered a waiting car, which conveyed them to the assembly hall. “We have nothing at all to say,” was the remark with which the younger Dr. Interest met the clutch of reporters who wished to interview her and her grandmother. After nine hours in a plane, she said, they felt “full of sawdust.” Despite her protestations, there were many questions asked, most revolving around the elder Dr. Interest’s recent journey to the center of the earth, but she declined to be drawn out, and counseled all present to wait for her weekend keynote address. She did concede that she had been quoted correctly in affirming that previous conceptions of the interior of the globe were wholly erroneous. “Wrong beyond wrong, and my opinions have not been represented emphatically enough,” she said. Her son and granddaughter smiled. Dr. Corsetti frowned. Ms. Proops laughed loudly.
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