Chapter ThreeArletta, standing at the window of her bedroom, thought that on the whole it had been an extraordinary but very good day.
First she had been delighted to find that David was not so ignorant where English was concerned as she had been led to believe.
His father had died when he was six, but until then he had talked to him in English and only after that, when his mother had brought the children to the Château, had that language been barred.
But once he began to talk with Arletta the words came back even if his grammar was rather hazy and, as he was very eager to learn, she thought that in one day they had made a surprising amount of progress.
She insisted on teaching David alone and then tried very gently to interest Pauline in the English names for flowers, food and everyth
