'You fully expect to marry Gustav?' I asked.
'We are verlobt,' answered Mina, not without a little air of dignity.
'Yes, I know. But that was long ago.'
'Verlobt once, verlobt always,' said the little maiden, confidently.
'But why, then, does the gardener speak of Jacob, if you are engaged to this Gustav?'
'O, fader he like the old, and Jacob is old, thirty year! His wife is gone to the Next Country. Jacob is a brother, too; he write his name in the book. But Gustav he not do so; he is free.'
'You mean that the baker has signed the articles, and is a member of the Community?'
'Yes; but the baker is old, very old; thirty year! Gustav not twenty and three yet; he come home, then he sign.'
'And have you signed these articles, Wilhelmina?'