"Oh, no, Connie! Karel and Cateau have been living at the Hague for years."
"And Gerrit is ... a captain?"
"Yes, in the hussars."
"I am quite out of everything.... And Ernst ... does nothing?..."
"Ernst has always been rather strange, you know; he really fights shy of people. He collects things, all sorts of things: china, books, old maps...."
"And Paul?"
"No, Paul does nothing."
"But how strange!"
"What?"
"That they have none of them done anything to distinguish themselves: none of Papa's sons...."