“It will not be as bad as that,” the Count replied, “and I have a feeling that Your Royal Highness is going to be very quick at picking up the language that as you rightly said is a mixture of other languages of which you already have quite a knowledge.”
“I know enough to be able to read books in Greek and most other European languages. I hope because my father was, I understand, a brilliant linguist, that I will be the same.”
“Of course you will and your father was, without exception, the cleverest and most interesting man I have ever met.”
“Do tell me more about him – ”
He answered her without warning in her father’s language and to her joy she found she could understand most of what he said.
When she stopped him and made him explain to her again in Greek or German what he had said,
