'Understand?' cried Papa. 'I understand it so thoroughly that I most positively refused to have him under this one.'
'Ah—yes,' said Frau von Lindeberg, a Dammerlitz expression coming into her face. 'The cases are not—are not quite—pray tell me, who and what is his father?'
'A respectable man, madam, I should judge.'
'Respectable? And besides respectable?'
'Eminently worthy, I should say from his letters.'
'Ah yes. And—and anything else?'
'Honorable too, I fancy. Indeed, I have not a doubt.'
'Is he of any family?'
'He is of his own family, madam.'
'Ah yes. And did you—did you say he was well off?'