There was a girl there, a petite girl with large blue eyes, and Daniel assumed she was Dutch at first. But after she'd heard the two visitors conversing in English she addressed them in French, and explained something about the Prince of Orange. Penn's French was much better than Daniel's because he had spent a few years exiled to a Protestant college (now extirpated) in Saumur, so he exchanged a few sentences with the girl and then said to Daniel: 'The sand-sailing is excellent today.'