"It's a very unhappy marriage."
"Yes; and the boy is shockingly brought up."
"They let him do as he likes."
"Just think, mevrouw: the boy took the house for them!"
"You don't mean it!"
"Yes, really!"
"What a state of affairs: it's all so immoral!"
"What did she come to the Hague for?"
"She was bored in Brussels. And she wants to thrust herself forward here, at Court."
"So I heard."