“Only two years,” said she.
Bat expressed his astonishment.
“But you speak the language so well,” he said.
She laughed, and the harp murmured under her touch.
“You are thinking of my having lived in Mexico, or in Germany, before that,” she said. “Well, I have. But, you see, I was educated in England and the United States.”
“Oh, yes,” said the big man; “that accounts for it then.” He watched her for a little and listened to the soft sounds she drew from the strings. “But Miss Knowles,” he said, “she speaks the language very well also.”
“She should,” replied Miss Hohenlo calmly, “seeing that she is American.”
“No,” said Bat, apparently much amazed. “I was sure she was German.”
Miss Hohenlo laughed quietly.
“It is very easy for Grace to create impressions,” she said. “She has talent in that direction.”