It seemed another act of the light pantomime at the door.

As if they had both thought on the instant how droll it was, they laughed, and she said to him naively: "You have come to visit the governor?
You are a Frenchman, are you not ?" To this in slow and careful English, "Yes," he replied; "I have come from Canada to see his excellency.

Will you speak French ?" "If you please, no," she answered, smiling; "your English is better than my French.

But I must go." And she turned towards the door of the governor's room.
"Do not go yet," he said.

"Tell me, are you the governor's daughter ?" She paused, her hand at the door.