In the East the man had a friend, an artist.

He thought how wonderful a theme for a painting this scene would make.

The girl in picturesque hat of soft felt, riding with careless ease and grace; horse, maiden, plain, bathed in a sea of silver.
More and more as she talked the man wondered how this girl reared in the wilds had acquired a speech so free from grammatical errors.

She was apparently deeply ignorant, and yet with a very few exceptions she made no serious errors in English.

How was it to be accounted for?
He began to ply her with questions about herself, but could not find that she had ever come into contact with people who were educated.