"The language? Why she rails like a fish-wife. Is that what you call language? Ours is another business."
"If you understood, if you understood, you'd see all the greatness of it," Miriam declared. And then in another tone: "Such delicious expressions!"
"On dit que c'est très-fort. But who can tell if you really say it?" Madame Carré demanded.
"Ah, par exemple, I can!" Sherringham answered.
"Oh you—you're a Frenchman."
"Couldn't he make it out if he weren't?" asked Basil Dashwood.
The old woman shrugged her shoulders. "He wouldn't know."
"That's flattering to me."
"Oh you—don't you pretend to complain," Madame Carré said. "I prefer our imprecations—those of Camille," she went on. "They have the beauty des plus belles choses."
"I can say them too," Miriam broke in.