"I am not the only one."
"I hope that the others feel more affection for me and more indulgence than you do."
"Bertha was against your coming. So was Karel."
"I thank you for telling me; but, as I said, it is too late now."
"Gerrit and the others don't count, because they don't see people. Bertha and Karel and I have our family, our friends."
"And I compromise you in their eyes, do I?"
"Your coming here raked up a heap of things which had been long forgotten. And I know as a fact that your father- and mother-in-law were against it."
"You seem to know a great deal; and I am glad that you are so frank."
"I am always frank."
"And so irreproachable."