Cornélie raised her eyebrows:
“What do you mean?”
“A cosmopolitan company like this.”
“Oh, yes!”
“You are Dutch?”
“How do you know?”
“I saw your name in the visitors’ book, with ‘la Haye’ after it.”
“I am Dutch, yes.”
“There are some more Dutch ladies here, sitting over there: they are charming.”
Cornélie asked the major-domo for some vin ordinaire.