"Precisely to stop her short. The great model will find her very bad. Her judgements, as you probably know, are Rhadamanthine."
"Unfortunate creature!" said Biddy. "I think you're cruel."
"Never mind—I'll look after them," Sherringham laughed.
"And how can Madame Carré judge if the girl recites English?"
"She's so intelligent that she could judge if she recited Chinese," Peter declared.
"That's true, but the jeune Anglaise recites also in French," said Gabriel Nash.
"Then she isn't stupid."
"And in Italian, and in several more tongues, for aught I know."
Sherringham was visibly interested. "Very good—we'll put her through them all."
"She must be most clever," Biddy went on yearningly.