"I can't do it. Read me a paragraph, if you please, Mr. Moore."
What _he_ read _she_ repeated. She caught his accent in three minutes.
"Trs bien," was the approving comment at the close of the piece.
"C'est presque le Franais rattrap, n'est-ce pas?"
"You could not write French as you once could, I dare say?"
"Oh no! I should make strange work of my concords now."
"You could not compose the _devoir_ of 'La Premire Femme Savante'?"

"I can't do it. Read me a paragraph, if you please, Mr. Moore."
What he read she repeated. She caught his accent in three minutes.
"Trs bien," was the approving comment. "You could not write French as you once could, I dare say?"
"Oh no! I should make strange work of it now."
"You could not compose the essay 'La Premire Femme Savante'?"
