Convincing proofs of Walter’s improvement—His first invitation—A study in love—Paradise and Peri 87

[Chapter XIV]

Great changes in the Pieterse family—Walter becomes poet-laureate at the court of Juffrouw Laps—The mountains of Asia—The bridge, Glorioso, and love—again 102

[Chapter XV]

Walter’s dream—A swell coachman—Juffrouw Laps’s difficulties 117

[Chapter XVI]

Femke hunts for Walter, and finds him under peculiar circumstances—Her adventures by the way 125

[Chapter XVII]

The widower’s birthday—Klaasje’s poem, and how a surprise may involve further surprises 132

[Chapter XVIII]