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Updated: June 23, 2025
But she found tact a ticklish thing, the most difficult thing of all to handle successfully; and on this occasion hers was so elaborate, and so carefully wrapped up in Scriptural language, and German Scripture at that, that Anna-Felicitas's slow mind didn't succeed in disentangling her meaning, and after a space of staring at her with a mild inquiry in her eyes, she decided that perhaps she hadn't got one.
Twist arrived at the table got up with some little difficulty, for he had to lean hard on a thick stick, but yet obviously with empressement. "You've forgotten the sugar," said Anna-Felicitas's gentle voice behind Mr. Twist as he was putting down the tray; and there she was, sure enough, looking smugger than ever. "This is Mr. Twist," said Anna-Felicitas with an amiable gesture.
It's what they are," said the youth. "What I want to know is, are they all here?" "How interesting that you don't drop your h's," said Anna-Felicitas, gazing at him. "The rest of you is so like no h's." The youth said nothing to that, the line of thought being one he didn't follow. "Those are all our grips, I think," said Anna-Rose counting them round the corner of Anna-Felicitas's skirt.
"Well, as I was telling yous " "But this is delicious this is a conception of genius," said Mr. Wangelbecker all-embracingly, after he had picked up Anna-Felicitas's tablets and restored them to her with a low bow. "Charming, charming," said Mrs. Wangelbecker, looking round. "Real cunning," said Miss Wangelbecker, "as they say here."
She was sobering herself by going over her different responsibilities, checking them off on her fingers, the two five-pound notes under her pillow for extra expenses till they were united in New York to their capital, the tickets, the passports, and Anna-Felicitas, when two thick fair pigtails appeared dangling over the edge of her berth, followed by Anna-Felicitas's head.
Except, however, for the Twinklers, for all other persons of whom it was said that they were Germans, naturalized or not, immediate or remote, he had, instructed by his newspaper, what his called a healthy instinctive abhorrence. "And she's got it too," he thought, much gratified at this bond between them, as he noted Anna-Felicitas's hesitating and reluctant advance to meet the new guests.
"We don't really," said Anna-Rose, mindful of Anna-Felicitas's words and making a great effort to speak politely. "We come from England." "England!" cried the lower berth, annoyed by this quibbling. "You were born in Westphalia. All Twinklers are born in Westphalia." "Invariably they are," said the upper berth.
"I haven't seen her for ages," sobbed Anna-Rose, who had been much upset by Anna-Felicitas's prolonged disappearance and had suspected her, though she couldn't understand it after last night's finishings up, of secret unworthy conduct in a corner with ice-cream. Mr. Twist went to the door quickly and looked through. "I can't see her either," he said. "Confound them what have they done to her?
Twist pointed them out to the twins, and so did the young man who had remarked favourably on Anna-Felicitas's looks, and as they did it simultaneously and there was so much to look at and so many boats to wave to, it wasn't till they had actually got to the statue of Liberty that Anna-Rose remembered her £10 and the dollars.
"Then," observed Anna-Felicitas, when on nearing Boston Anna-Rose repeated Aunt Alice's admonishment and at the same time provided Anna-Felicitas for her guidance with the definition, "seeing that we're supposed to be gentlewomen, all we've got to do is to behave according to our instincts." But Anna-Rose wasn't sure. She doubted their instincts, especially Anna-Felicitas's.
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