“Not now. But just now you were.”
“Was I speaking English? I did not know—”
“Why have you never spoken English to me?”
“I don’t know.”
“Oh yes, you do know.”
“No, really not.”
“I assure you that you do know. Now tell me why, come!”
She laughed a little amused laugh.
“Because you speak such jolly French. You have such a pretty accent.”
“Then you have always laughed at me in secret?”