"I'm studying the language and find it expressive and plain.

When our new friends talk you know what they mean.

Besides, I'd better learn their idioms, because I might stop in Canada if somebody urged me." Grace gave her a quiet look.

Barbara meant to annoy her, or perhaps did not want to admit she had mistaken the spot.

Now Grace came to think about it, the plan that the young men should meet them and paddle them down the lake was Barbara's.
"I don't see why we didn't go with Harry and the other, as he suggested," she said.
"Then, you're rather dull.