"Fish?" repeated Letty, looking stupid.
"Fish?" echoed Miss Leech, trying to help.
"Fisch?" said the coachman himself, catching at the word.
"Oh, yes; how utterly silly I am," cried Anna blushing and showing her dimples, "it's Fisch, of course. Kutscher, wo ist Fisch?"
The man looked blank; then his face brightened, and pointing with his whip to the rolling sea on their right, visible across the flat intervening fields, he said that there was much fish in it, especially herrings.
"What does he say?" asked Susie from behind her handkerchief.
"He says there are herrings in the sea."
"Is the man a fool?"
Letty laughed uproariously. The coachman, seeing Letty and Anna laugh, thought he must have said the right thing after all, and looked very pleasant.
"Aber im Wagen," persisted Anna, "wo ist Fisch im Wagen?"