"It's more than sixty years ..."
"Wha-at?" exclaimed the doctor, in a startled voice.
"Ago ..."
"What are you saying?" cried the old woman, shrilly.
"I'm saying," said Takma, "that Ottilie, that Lietje ... is turned sixty ..."
"Oh, yes!"
"And so it's more than sixty ... more than sixty years ago since ..."
"Si-ince what?" exclaimed the doctor.
"Since Dercksz ... was drowned," said Takma.
And he nodded his head.