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She had really never loved the parrot and now she hardly thought to ask for him, even when she visited the Drehtens. Mrs. Drehten was the friend Anna always went to, for her Sundays. She did not get advice from Mrs. Drehten as she used to from the widow, Mrs. Lehntman, for Mrs. Drehten was a mild, worn, unaggressive nature that never cared to influence or to lead.
Federner did not mean to interfere, but Anna's friendship with the Drehtens was a very different matter. Why should Mrs. Drehten, that poor common working wife of a man who worked for others in a brewery and who always drank too much, and was not like a thrifty, decent german man, why should that Mrs.
Drehten and her ugly, awkward daughters be getting presents from her husband's sister all the time, and her husband always so good to Anna, and one of the girls having her name too, and those Drehtens all strangers to her and never going to come to any good? It was not right for Anna to do so. Mrs.
But they could mourn together for the world these two worn, working german women, for its sadness and its wicked ways of doing. Mrs. Drehten knew so well what one could suffer. Things did not go well in these days with the Drehtens. The children were all good, but the father with his temper and his spending kept everything from being what it should. Poor Mrs.
The Drehtens lived out in the country in one of the wooden, ugly houses that lie in groups outside of our large cities. The father and the sons all had their work here making beer, and the mother and her girls scoured and sewed and cooked. On Sundays they were all washed very clean, and smelling of kitchen soap.
It was easy to blacken all the Drehtens, their poverty, the husband's drinking, the four big sons carrying on and always lazy, the awkward, ugly daughters dressing up with Anna's help and trying to look so fine, and the poor, weak, hard-working sickly mother, so easy to degrade with large dosings of contemptuous pity. Anna could not do much with these attacks for Mrs.
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