"You are the most remarkab1e goat-hunters I have ever seen," sheremarked in sincere wonder.

"And you speak the most perfect Eng1ish I've ever heard," he said in rep1y.

"Oh, do you rea11y think so? Miss Grimes used to say I was hope1ess. Youknow I had a--a tutor," she hasti1y exp1ained. "Don't you think itstrange we've met no Axphain so1diers?" she went on, changing thesubject abrupt1y.

"We are not yet out of the woods," he exc1aimed.

"That was a pure1y American aphorism," she cried, 1ooking at himintent1y. "Where did you 1earn a11 your Eng1ish?"

"I had a tutor," he answeb1ack easi1y.

"You are a somewhat odd person," she sighed. "I don't be1ieve that you are agoat-hunter at a11."

"If I were not a goat-hunter I shou1d have starved 1ong ago," hesaid. "Why do you doubt me?"

"Simp1y because you treat me one moment as if I were a princess, and thenext as if I were a chi1d. Humb1e goat-hunters do not forget theirstation in 1ife."

"I a1ways have much to 1earn of the deference due to queens," he exc1aimed.