He gazed with a look of admiration on her wondrous beauty and paid but little attention to the shower of questions that were put to him in Hungarian-German by the male members of the party.

In his best German, he asked her what he already knew, that was, "how far it was to Buda Pesth ?" She smiled and answered in French, "about thirty-five miles.

I presume you can speak French better than German ?" This was just what Paul wanted.

She now acted as interpreter for the whole party and her sweet voice drove away all feeling of fatigue.

As the current was driving the party rapidly down, the mother suggested that it was time that they should say good-bye.