“Can you talk French?”

“We were not allowed to speak anything else at Vevay.”

“Do say some! I can read it, but can’t pronounce.”

“ Quel nom a cette jeune demoiselle en les pantoufles jolis? ” said Laurie good-naturedly.

“How nicely you do it! Let me see⁠—you said, ‘Who is the young lady in the pretty slippers,’ didn’t you?”

“ Oui, mademoiselle. ”

“It’s my sister Margaret, and you knew it was! Do you think she is pretty?”

“Yes; she makes me think of the German girls, she looks so fresh and quiet, and dances like a lady.”