"Because we don't want to touch Mamma's money."
"But why not? She's living with you!"
"We want to avoid unpleasantness with any of the brothers or sisters."
"But which of us would create any unpleasantness?" asked Adolphine, very humbly.
"By our way ... there's no question of any unpleasantness."
"Yes," said Adolphine. "Still, I thought...."
"That we received all the interest on Mamma's money?"
"Yes. The money's lying there quite useless."
"There will be all the more for her grandchildren later on."
"Yes," said Adolphine, greatly surprised, remembering her long conversations during those many years with Saetzema, Karel and Cateau ... because Van der Welcke and Constance at Driebergen were quietly taking Mamma's money for themselves. "I wonder the solicitor never told us!"