You know French pretty well, don't you ?" "Oh, sufficiently," Joan answered.

The one thing her mother had done for her had been to talk French with her when she was a child; and at Girton she had chummed on with a French girl, and made herself tolerably perfect.
"You will not go as a journalist," continued Mrs.Denton; "but as a personal friend of mine, whose discretion I shall vouch for.

I want you to find out what the people I am sending you among are thinking themselves, and what they consider ought to be done.

If we are not very careful on both sides we shall have the newspapers whipping us into war." The perpetual Egyptian trouble had cropped up again and the Carleton papers, in particular, were already sounding the tocsin.

Carleton's argument was that we ought to fall upon France and crush her, before she could develop her supposed submarine menace.