"Yes, Mother, these are the times we live in! I never dared take a house for you; now did I?"
Constance for the first time appeared to realize that Addie must seem a little queer to her mother:
"Oh, he's always like that!" she said. "He helps us. He's a man. Aren't you, my man?..."
He now went up to her and kissed her, to please her:
"So you see, I must find Papa before seven o'clock, or he'll be angry," he said, keeping to the point.
"Well, shall we go round to the Witte together?" asked Paul.
"Oh, Uncle, that would be awfully good of you!"
"But I can't take you in, old chap!"
"No, Uncle, I'll wait outside, if you'll just look for Papa and tell him I want to speak to him."
"About a house you've taken for him!"