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You know, we must stop on board till Lady MacNairne's better, so there's no hurry, and he had to change. At first he wouldn't go without an answer. But I told him I must have ten minutes to make up my mind. He's explained everything. He was never to blame. It was all Freule Menela's fault and mine. Please say what you think. You know him so well; you're old friends.
I dreamed all night that I was pursued by Robert's escaped fiancée, and dodging her, ran into the arms of Sir Alec MacNairne, who denounced me fiercely as a murderer. Nor was there much relief in awaking; for I knew that in her room, divided from me only by a friendly wall or two, Freule Menela lay planning how to trap me.
If any man is ennobled, ail his children, sons as well as daughters, share the privilege, so there is no 'courtesy title; officially they are indicated by the father's rank from the moment of their birth, but as long as they are young it is the custom to address the boys as 'Jonker, the girls as 'Freule. For the rest, life at The Hague is very much like life everywhere else.
"That is often so," I hurried to assure her, with the idea of establishing the commonplaceness of such an experience. "You feel it, too?" Her eyes were fixed on me, and I answered "Yes," before I had time to decide whether, at this point, it would not be safer not to feel it. "I've often been told that American men are very impulsive. But are there many like you?" asked Freule Menela.
She'll be polite and nice, but she wants us to disappear." "Good gracious!" "Pretty Lilli told me this evening that Freule Menela van der Windt hasn't much money, but she comes of a splendid family: she's a distant relation of that Mr. Brederode, and her people are diplomats who live at The Hague, though she's an orphan and visits about. If one of us were rich why oh, it's too horrid to go on.
Nobody else spoke, but I felt that the silence of Robert and the twins was more eloquent than words. When I had overcome the first giddy rapture of returning life, and was sure that I was steady on my feet, I dared to dally with the subject. I asked if bad news had come for Freule Menela, expressed devout relief that it had not, and piped regret at being deprived of a farewell.
They are great friends. And talking about the Jonkheer, I don't know what to make of him lately. I believed at first that he was in love with Nell, and had got himself asked on board "Lorelei" so that he might have the chance of knowing her better. She had the same impression, I think, though she never said so to me, and she was very angry about something Freule Menela told us.
"Brother dear," she whispered, "may I walk with you, please? Freule Menela says there is something she has been wanting all day to talk over with Mr. van Buren; so I thought I had better leave them alone, and drop behind with you if you don't mind having me?" "Mind!" I echoed in my turmoil of spirit. "It's a happy relief."
If he doesn't seize his chance soon, he'll miss it forever; because once his Freule discovers that she isn't to be claimed by another, she'll find it convenient to change her mind about life in Rotterdam.
I did not attribute her pleasure to the power of my manly charms; but the young lady is the sort of young lady to be complimented by almost any marked attention from any man, especially when other girls, prettier than herself, are present. I continued to absorb myself in Freule Menela.
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