“Just wait till she comes again,” cried Gertrude, “and I will attend to her!”
“And what will I do for her?” said Mina significantly.
Every one of them was ready for the fray. That is often the case. If the vote had been taken now on moral worth, Femke would have been defeated.
“A common girl, M’neer!”
“Worse than common!”
“How did you get rid of her?”
“Ah, it wasn’t easy. I said——”
“No, mother, I said——”
“No, it was I!”
“But it was I!”