"Nothing more than I have already told you--that Mr. Nisbet lives in a house about two miles away. I have been expecting your arrival, and my orders are that I place myself at your service. The command is in your hands now."
"Have you seen the house?"
"No."
"From whom did you obtain your information?"
"From one of the waiters here, who is ready enough to talk about everything and everybody in the place. I pumped him cautiously, and learned a lot that I didn't care to hear and a little that I did."
"Do you speak French and German?"
"I can just make myself understood, and the waiter can just make himself understood in English. He is anxious to know more of our language, as he intends to go to London and make his fortune, so I have been teaching him a bit. We are very good friends already, François and I."
"Is that his name?"
"I don't know; I call all foreign waiters François."
"I suppose you have not discovered whether Mr. Nisbet lives alone?"