"I hadn't thought of that," said Nan, "though maybe she doesn't want them to know she is Russian for fear they will find out her plots."
Miss Helen laughed aloud. "You are away off, Nan," she said.
"Perhaps she is a Greek." Jack thought up this.
"Or a-a-Austrian," Jean ventured.
"Then she'd speak better German," objected Nan.
"What do you say, Mary?" asked Miss Helen. "No one so far has guessed right. You must have a chance."
"She might be French, perhaps Canadian French."
"But the Italian letter," spoke up Mary Lee.
"I had one from Italy myself this morning addressed to Signora Corner," Mrs. Corner told her.