Those Emersons

Reading Wodehouse's "Something Fresh" and he's put one side-character's name George Emerson. Wonder if it's just a coincidence or did he take it from Foster's "A Room with a View"?? 

Lessons

I'm worried. Next week sometime is going to be my daughter's 'interview' for the next class. I tried giving her a crash-course in fruits and vegetables, some sentences in English. We had a session for about 10 minutes and after that I asked her which fruit she liked the most and she says, "Vegetable fruit!" with glee! I suspended the lesson after that.