Solomon stirred heavily and looked up, flushing, her eyes avoiding the German arbours.

“Na, Solemn,” laughed Fräulein Pfaff.

“Oh well, of course, Fräulein.” Solomon sat in a crimson tide, bridling.

“Solomon likes not Germans.”

“Go on, Elsa,” rattled Bertha. “Germans are all right, me dear. I think it’s rather a lark when they sing out Engländerin. I always want to yell ‘Ya!’”

“Likewise ‘Boo!’ Come on, Mill, we’re all waiting.”

“Well, you know I don’t like it, Jimmie.”

Why?

“Because it makes me forget I’m in Germany and only remember I’ve got to go back.”

“My hat, Mill, you’re a queer mixture!”