“Oh, I don’t know. There was a fearful row anyhow. Ulrica said Lily talked like a clergyman—wie ein Pfarrer.... I don’t know. Ulrica said she was opening a letter. I don’t know.”
“But she can’t read German or English....”
“I don’t know. Ask me another.”
“It is extraordinary.”
“What’s extraordinary?” asked Bertha from the far side of Jimmie.
“Petite and that letter.”
“Oh.”
“What did the Kiddy want?”
“Oh, my dear, don’t ask me to explain the peculiarities of the French temperament.”
“Yes, but all the letters in the letter-box would be English or German, as Hendy says.”