"She came back as obstinate as a mule. It all had to be gone into again from the beginning."
"She will not consent?"
"She said Lohm would look at the place and advise her."
"Aber so was!" cried Frau Dellwig, crimson with wrath. "Advise her? Did you not tell her that you were her adviser?"
"You may be sure I did. I told her plainly enough, I fancy, that Lohm had nothing to say here, and that her uncle had always listened to me. She sat without speaking, as she generally does, not even looking at me—I never can be sure that she is even listening."
"And then?"
"I asked her at last if she had lost confidence in me."
"And then?"
"She said oh nein, in her affected foreign way—in the sort of voice that might just as well mean oh ja." And he imitated, with great bitterness, Anna's way of speaking German. "Mark my words, Frau, she is as weak as water for all her obstinacy, and the last person who talks to her can always bring her round."
"Then you must be the last person."