There the English lesson ended. Not that the pupil had failed to observe the master’s lips and tongue. She had done so most attentively—but not with a mind towards improving her vowels. "Noch einmal, bitte," she requested, and when he arched his sandy eyebrows and opened his mouth to pronounce the "I," she was up and on him. His lips and tongue went through the movements for "love," but Caroline felt them with her own lips and tongue, and heard not a thing.