“If you like.”
“Where is thees apartment?”
He told her.
“Is it very grand?” She used the word in the French, not the English signification.
“Two bedrooms, dining-room, salon. It is very comfortable. We shall move in to-morrow—and we’re going to have a cook.”
“Cook? What is cook?”
Again recourse must be had to the dictionary, and there followed a lesson in pronouncing the rather difficult word cuisinière.
“Has thees friend, this Monsieur Stanley, a friend—like me?”
“I think so.”
“You do not know? You have not seen her?”