"Shall I be believed? I do not know. And it matters little, after all...

"... I'm Jules Verne, chronicler of the improbable and extraordinary. But there's something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?"

 

Grandfather of Science Fiction he may well have been, but Mr. Verne was refusing to accept any responsibility for the small child who had infiltrated the studio and scribbled on the backdrop to his portrait.