Ivan seemed astonished.
"So your mother taught you her mother tongue!" he said.

"Ah, but that is splendid!" Then he was off.
"Ivan might have been a great actor, I believe," said Boris.

"See, isn't he the German to the life as he goes, there?
No wonder he can deceive them so!" "It's pretty dangerous work for him, though, I should think," said Fred.
"They wouldn't waste much time on him if they caught him, would they ?" "Only the time they needed for a drumhead court-martial.

After that, if he was lucky, he would be shot instead of being hung.

But he is ready, you see.