“Ask Urania to come too.”
“Why not you and I alone?”
“I think it better that you should invite your future wife. I will chaperon her.”
“You are right. You are quite right. And will you ask Mr. van der Staal also to give me the pleasure of his company?”
“Until to-morrow then, at half-past eight?”
“Until half-past eight to-morrow.”
He rose to take his leave:
“Propriety demands that I should go,” he said. “Really I should prefer to stay.”
“Well, then stay ... or stay another time, if you have to go now.”