Sometimes she used a word in its wrong sense; she had one or two charming little phrases of her own: "What a purpose to ?" instead of: "Why ?" and sometimes a double negative.

She rolled her r's more than is our habit.
I said, looking straight into her eyes: "It's a tremendous thing to him, his having you.

I can see that although I've known him so short a time.

He's a very lucky man and--and--if his luck were to go, I think that he'd simply die.

There! That isn't a very English thing to have said, is it ?" "Why did you say it ?" she cried sharply.