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Updated: June 15, 2025
They continued to talk about her a great deal afterwards, Denah going back with her sister to the kitchen and the vegetables, so as to be able to do so undisturbed. "I will help you with these," she said; "then we can go out." She sat down and took up a knife. "It is strange how much Vrouw Van Heigen thinks of that girl," she said.
Vrouw Van Heigen gasped; the gentle, drawling voice, the manner, the whole air of the speaker overwhelmed her, and shattered all her previous thoughts of the affair. With Mijnheer it was different; right was right, and wrong wrong to him, no matter who the persons concerned might be. "Then, sir," he said, growing somewhat red, "I am glad indeed that I cannot tell you where she is."
I will stay till six if you wish it, or I will go now without waiting to attend to the dinner." Vrouw Van Heigen preferred the waiting; it would be so very much better for the dinner, and really it hardly seemed as if propriety could suffer much; accordingly she said with what dignity she could that the girl had better stay till the evening.
The only field open to her was that of a nursery-governess or companion; neither was likely to enable her to pay this debt of honour quickly. Once, nearly a year ago, she had had a sort of half-offer of the post of companion. It was while she was staying with a friend; during the visit there had come to the house an old Dutchman of the name of Van Heigen, a business acquaintance of her host.
She stretched out her hands, and he put something into them; then he stepped back, and the carriage drove on. It was not till the gateway was passed that she realised what it was she held a small bag made of the greyish-brown paper used on a bulb farm; inside, a single bulb; and outside, written, according to the invariable custom of growers "Narcissus Triandrus Azureum Vrouw Van Heigen."
Are you not turning out, with no character and no chance a good enough imitation of hanging a girl who has been no more than foolish, just the same as if she had committed the greatest sin?" Vrouw Heigen broke in angrily, and Vrouw Snieder and Denah, inexpressibly shocked; Mijnheer was also shocked, but he, and they too, were vaguely uneasy under the reproach.
"I hope you may be right," he said, "but I am afraid she will be in difficulties. She had little money, and no friends in Holland, and was, I have reason to believe, on such terms with her family that it would not suit her to return to England." "Ah, but she must have gone to England!" Vrouw Van Heigen cried.
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