But behind them, the maids were exchanging bewildered glances.
They were unable to follow what was being meant in the conversation, although they can understand each word that is being said but the when joined together, they couldn't understand it all.
But their mistress's reaction was unprecedented they had never seen her talk to a man this much before.
"And the moon, you see," Miss Evelyn went on, her voice trembling with excitement. "I have watched it carefully. It shows us different faces every few days sometimes it's a thin crescent, sometimes a half circle, full, and then it follows the same pattern back again.
"That implies it's not flat, doesn't it? I have deduced that maybe it is some kind of a sphere, and we're only seeing various parts of it illuminated as it moves."
"Yes," Alex said simply, impressed again by her intelligence.
"Then the earth itself," Miss Evelyn pressed on, her thoughts already leaping ahead. "I have watched ships sail away from harbor.
