"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?"
"I will."
"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."
"You are so cold."
"And you don't think enough of Urania."