Van der Welcke too was surprised:
"That's really extremely kind of you, my new sister!"
"Here is a list I made, with the rent, in most cases."
"Only, Dorine, Duinoord is so far from Mamma."
"Yes; but, Connie," said Mamma, "you can't get anything in this neighbourhood for eight hundred guilders."
"What's the use of living at the Hague," said Constance, impatiently, "and being an hour away from you? I want to live near you."
"Well, we shall see," Van der Welcke ventured to put in.
"See, see, see!" said Constance, angrily. "I want to have my own house quickly. The hotel is expensive; and I dislike it. By the time the furniture has come from Brussels, by the time we are settled...."
"Oh, well, Mummy," said Addie, decisively, "Rome wasn't built in a day, you know."
She smiled at once. Every word spoken by her child was a balm, an anodyne. The old grandmother smiled. Dorine smiled.