"Well, all I'm working for is to get back home where I came from."
"You won't be when you hear all I've got to say."
He started at that; then, with sudden change of thought, his eyes turned to Anina. The girl blushed under his admiring gaze.
"Say, she's a little beauty, isn't she? Who is she?"
"She's my sister," I said, smiling.
For once he was too dumfounded to reply.
Miela had finished her translation now, and, as she turned back to us, spoke in English for the first time during the conversation.
"Do you know why it is they brought you here from the Twilight Country?" she asked Mercer.
This gave him another shock. "Why, I—no. That is—say, how do you happen to talk English? Is it one of your languages here, by any chance?"
Miela laughed gayly.