"Yes, they let it drift down stream ... in the kali ..."
"I held an inquest on the body next day ... and I ... I understood.... I had understood it before, for I had seen your mother that morning and she was raving in her delirium ... and I ... I promised ... yes-yes, I promised that I wouldn't tell ... O my God, O my God ... if she ... if she would consent to love me! O my God, O my God, Dercksz, Dercksz, Daan, I have never ... I have never said a word!... And God knows what people, sixty years ago, yes-yes, sixty years ago, didn't think ... and say ... and gossip and gossip ... without knowing the truth ... until it was all forgotten ... until it was too late to hold a fresh inquest, after all those months.... I never, never said a word.... O my God, no-no, no-no!..."
"When I knew, Roelofsz, I couldn't stay in India. I felt that I must see Harold, see you, see Mamma, see Takma...."
"Why?"
"I don't know, I had to see you all. Oh, how they must have suffered. I am sorry for her, for Takma. I had to see you, to talk to you about it. I knew that you ..."
"Did the mantri know ... about me?"
"Through Ma-Boeten."
"Yes, she knew everything, the hag!"
"She held her tongue for years. I did not even know that she was alive. And then she told her son. She thought Mamma was dead. The son knew some of the servants at our house. He got to know that Mamma was still alive...."
"O my God, O my God, yes-yes!"