She talks English without the least accent.

Hush! here is papa." It was indeed the little Professor, who rushed into the room and threw himself, blowing and panting, on the dingy sofa.

He was small and dry, with black eyes and a wrinkled face.

He wore a blonde wig which did not match his yellow complexion, and was neatly dressed in black, with an old-fashioned swallow-tail coat of blue.

He carried a small fiddle and spoke volubly without regarding the presence of Miles.
"Oh, these cochons of English, my dear," he exclaimed to Peggy, "so steef--so wood-steef in the limbs.