And who but the French could produce such a woman spy?
Ehrenstein was not Prussia, it was true; but the duchy with its twenty thousand troops was one of the many pulses that beat in unison with this man Bismarck's plans.

Carmichael addressed her quickly in French, aiming to catch her off her guard.
"I do not speak French, Herr,"-- honestly.
He was certainly puzzled, but a glance at her hands dissolved his doubts.

These hands were used to toil, they were in no way disguised.

No Frenchwoman would sacrifice her hands for her country; at least, not to this extent.

Yet the two things in his mind would not readily cohese: a goose-girl who was familiar with the poets and composers.
"You have been to school ?" "After a manner.