"Do you understand German ?" "A little.

I studied it at college, and I've cultivated a sort of beer-garden German in Chicago.

I can ask for things." "I can't, except in French, and that's worse than English, in Germany, I hear." "Then you must let me be your interpreter up to the last moment.

Will you ?" She did not answer.

"It must be rather late, isn't it ?" she asked.