“Most of that of which we shall have to speak will be open to all who are in your trust, but there will be one matter which should be private to us alone.”
Sir Oliver looked at Angelica again, as though he connected her with this request in an agile mind. She had a feeling that he saw through her disguise, and yet without surprise, and in a way which she could not resent.
“If you will be seated,” he said, “you can speak with all privacy here, if you use no Latin; and, beyond that, you should avoid the German and Roumanian tongues.”
“I am unlikely,” Ramegas replied, “to use those that I do not know, and Latin I will be careful to shun.
“I come to give you account of that which I have brought in Don Manuel’s name, and would know first how much you will wish to learn, for I would not talk
