"I don't think so--" she doesn't tend to volunteer that about herself, just because it's so complicated in her head to pull apart. (Emery thinks of her as English because he thinks of himself as English; she can't connect to a country she's only ever lived in at boarding school.) After a moment, swirling her tea in the bottom of the cup, she says, "Italy. I'm from-- Florence, mostly, Daddy has an estate there." Had. Has. She doesn't know which it is. "I was born in France, though."

...and she sounds really British when she speaks English.