"What have you studied?"
Winthrop hesitated.
"A little Latin, sir."
"Latin! — How much Latin have you read?"
"The Gospel of John, and nearly the first book of the Aeneid.
But I have very little time."
"The Evangel of St. John, and the Aeneid. Are you going on to study it now?"
"Yes sir, — as much as I can find time."
"Greek too?"
"No sir. I am only beginning."
"I ask, because I saw some Greek books on de table de ozer night and I wondered — excuse me — who was reading them. You do not know nothing of German?"