"If they had only stayed there!"
"How very select Aunt Constance is to-night," said Floortje to Dijkerhof.
"She's been sitting with Paul the whole evening," he answered.
"Of course, no one is good enough for her!"
"No. When you've been the wife of a diplomatist...."
"And afterwards Baroness van der Welcke...."
"What did they come to the Hague for, exactly?"
"Mamma thinks, because she is afraid that, when Grandmamma, who doesn't look far ahead, dies...."
"Well, what then?"
"Well, that she won't get her full rights."