Peter--my friend--speaks it a bit.' 'So,' said Stumm.

'Well, get into the carriage.

Not that one! There, thickhead!' I did as I was bid, he followed, and the door was locked behind us.
The precaution was needless, for the sight of Stumm's profile at the platform end would have kept out the most brazen.

I wondered if I had woken up his suspicions.

I must be on my guard to show no signs of intelligence if he suddenly tried me in German, and that wouldn't be easy, for I knew it as well as I knew Dutch.
We moved into the country, but the windows were blurred with frost, and I saw nothing of the landscape.