Both the girl and Councillor Drayton followed with difficulty.
Jessica looked a message to her comrade in ignorance.

The old man touched the governor's arm.

"Let it be in English if monsieur is willing.

He speaks it well." The governor was at work to hide his anger: he wished good greeting to Count Frontenac's envoy, and it seemed not fitting to be touched by the charges of a boy.

"I must tell you frankly, Monsieur Iberville," he said, "that I do not choose to find a sort of challenge in your words; and I doubt that your father, had he been here, would have spoke quite so roundly.