"Then, the ladies' dresses, Sandwirth?"
"Ah!" with a grimace.
Stumff laughed. "What of them?" said he.
"Too little dress—too much exposure."
"Why, there's no satisfying you, Sandwirth."
"Oh, yes," said he, smiling. "One play has satisfied me—I don't want to go again."
"Your daughter would like it," said Alouise, decisively.
"I should not wish to give her a taste for such things," said Hofer. "She is perfectly content as she is."
"And that's more than I can say of my girl sometimes," said Stumff, with a smile and a shrug, as Alouise left them for a few minutes.