"Yes, there's a strain of it in all of them."
"A strain? Something more than a strain I call it. And it's continued in the Van Naghels."
"Adolphine's the best of the lot."
"She's a megalomaniac, though, for all that."
"I say, this Mrs. van der Welcke: what has she come here for?"
"Well, she thinks the whole thing has blown over. It was fifteen years ago, you see. And she's married to Van der Welcke."
"Not according to Dutch law."
"No, but she can get married again."
"Yes, but they are not, they are not married according to Dutch law."
"Well, in that case, I don't look upon them as married at all!"