'Getting on well' is a description that could mean a lot, but Ivan decides that it probably means more than just a neutral relationship coming froma guy as cheerful as his father. His father. It's still fresh and new to look at someone and apply that word to them. He'd always wondered how it would be, to have a face, to have a name to attach to that concept.

He's not sure what to think of it yet. "Mr. Kostochev said that he was sure that you could help me with it. So we will learn together, yes?" He had thought that Timo's English must already be good... but maybe that governess that Timo mentioned would play a part in it too. It worries him a bit, to have to listen to so many people, but he hopes that it will work out somehow.