I again was left in doubt of my fate.

Again Sophie interposed.

"We have forgotten Mary Leighton," she said, gently.
"Does Miss Leighton know anything of German ?" "Not a thing," said Henrietta.
"What does she know anything of, but flirting ?" said Charlotte with asperity, glancing out into the grounds where Kilian was murmuring softest folly to her under her pongee parasol.
"Perhaps she'd like to learn," suggested Sophie.

"She and Pauline might begin together; that is, if Mr.Langenau would not think it too much trouble to give them an occasional suggestion.

And you, Charlotte, I am sure, could help them a great deal." Charlotte made no disguise of her disinclination to undertake to help them.
Mr.Langenau expressed his willingness so unenthusiastically, that I think Mrs.Hollenbeck was staggered.