He knew of no greater honor.
"Mr.Carmichael," she said in English, "tells me that you fought with him in the American war ?" "Yes, Highness." She plied him with a number of questions; how many battles they had fought in, how many times they had been wounded, how they lived in camp, and so forth; and which was the more powerful engine of war, the infantry or the cavalry.
"The cavalry, Highness," said Hans, without hesitation.
She laughed.

"If you had been a foot-soldier, you would have said the infantry; of the artillery, you would have sworn by the cannon." "That is true, Highness.

The three arms are necessary, but there is ever the individual pride in the arm one serves in." "And that is right.

You speak good English," she remarked.
"I have lived more than sixteen years in America, Highness." "Do you like it there ?" "It is a great country, full of great ideas and great men, Highness." "And you will go back ?" "Soon, Highness." The mare, knowing that this was the way home, grew restive and began prancing and pawing the road.

She reined in quickly.