"Yes, she was out driving yesterday with old Mrs. van Lowe."
"So she's back again?"
"Yes, she's back!"
In this way the cross-fire began, suavely and rapidly, as a conversational sport.
"And so she is received by her relations?"
"Yes. And even at Driebergen."
"Is it really twenty years ago?"
"No, it can't be as long as that."
"She has a child."
"Yes, a boy; but not by Van der Welcke."