"But what is it you've got to do?"
"Oh, Gerrit, nothing really that would interest you!... The point is that I'm good enough for Nunspeet ... but then of course they only want me to be nurse to your children."
"Why, Dorine!"
"That's it, of course!" she said, tartly. "To be nurse to your children!"
"I don't think you need be afraid of that. Line has the governess with her...."
"Well, then why does everybody want to get me down to Nunspeet: Mamma, Adeline, you?... I can't do anything for Ernst, because Ernst upsets me too much...."
"But, Dorine, to give you a change ... as you're so lonely here...."
"Lonely?... Lonely?" echoed Dorine.
She drank her last sip of water and said:
"I don't mind being lonely...."