"Well, Adolph-ine said that she'd be sure to go to Court again."
"I think that's wrong of Constance," said the old lady, sharply, inquisitively, eager for a bit of scandal. "And Bertha's Emilie is soon to be married."
"Ye-es. And Adolph-ine's Floor-tje too."
"I hear Emilie is to have a splendid trousseau," said the old lady. "Floortje's will be much less grand, I suppose?"
"Not so fine," drawled Cateau. "But still ve-ry nice. What terrible wea-ther, me-vrouw!... Come, Ka-rel, we must be go-ing on...."
In the brougham again. Next visit to Mr. and Mrs. IJkstra, cousins of Cateau, who was born an IJkstra:
"How d'ye do, Pie-ie-iet? How d'ye do, An-na?"
"How d'ye do, Cateau? How d'ye do, Karel? So Constance is back?"
"Yes. What do you thi-i-i-ink of it? And they all say ev-erywhere, that she is go-ing to Court."
"Oh!"