“And a man of means?”
“Pretty well.”
“You have property in Casablanca, in Morocco?”
“Yes, sir,” said Paul, wondering whither all these questions were to lead.
“And you lived there for some years?”
“Yes. Before I went to school in France and my father built his house in Aguilas.”
“You know Arabic, then?”
“The Moorish dialect, yes.”
“And by nationality you are French?”
“Yes,” answered Paul reluctantly.