All this Master Peter duly reported to Dora, with comments of his own, and many a shake of the head, and still her curiosity was not satisfied.
"What more did she want? He had emptied his wallet so far as he knew."
"You have hardly said a word about the Queen and the Princesses," returned Dora.
Whereupon Master Peter gave a short laugh.
"H-m! You had better ask your cousin Akos what he thinks of them the next time you see him," said he.
"Why, does he see much of them? I thought he was as much against their coming as you were."
"So he was! So he was! as strongly as any one! but—well, you know a page must go where he is sent, and his Majesty seems to want a good many messages taken. At all events, Akos is often with the Kun folk, and what is more, one never hears a word against them from him now! Bright eyes, Dora, bright eyes! and a deal of mischief they do."
"But can Akos understand them?"
"It seems so; he has picked the language up pretty quickly, hasn't he? It is all jargon to me, but then I have not had his practice! Father Roger says their tongue is something like our Magyar, a sort of uncouth relation, but I don't see the likeness myself."
"And the Princesses are really pretty?" Dora asked again.