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She had only come into the room to fetch keys, but a remark from her mother brought her to the window. "There goes Vrouw Van Heigen's English miss," the old lady said, and both her daughters looked at once. "She has been marketing, I see; she seems a good housewife." "She walks in the road," Denah observed critically; "It is so conspicuous, I could not do it; besides, one might be run over."
That was an additional reason for finding her and explaining that he, unlike Captain Polkington, was not used to anything of the sort. "She has gone?" he said, in answer to Vrouw Van Heigen's brief information.
Julia cannot be said to have been anxious for lemonade; Vrouw Van Heigen's growing affection for her often found expression in drinks at odd times, a good deal more often than she appreciated. On this occasion, since she was doing the pouring out herself, she was able to get off with half a glass.
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