"Doing what?"
"Studying Spanish, of course."
"Why, to learn it, to be sure," returned Leith, indolently. "What did I study French or German, or any of the rest of it, for?"
"You did that in French and German countries, and it was different. You are doing this here in America, where no one speaks Spanish."
"It strikes me that you forget Miss de Barryos very readily."
Leith knocked the ashes from his cigar as he spoke, with the nonchalance of a person absolutely indifferent to the subject upon which he is speaking; but Olney happened to know him a little better than to believe he felt as he appeared.
"She speaks English," he said, sententiously.
"I know, but she also speaks Spanish."
"And you are really learning it for that reason?"