"Well, then you stay, Henri."
"Do you mean to go in any case?"
"Yes, Mamma wants me to."
"But it's absurd!"
"Perhaps so ... but she would like it.... And we mayn't be able to do things to please her much longer!"
"Then send the cab on to the Bankastraat, when it comes...."
"Very well, sir."
They went....
"Didn't Addie go just now?"
"Yes, a minute or two before we did."