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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Do you never go there?" asked Minora, jerking her head in the direction of the house. "Sometimes. She is a very busy woman, and I should feel I was in the way if I went often." "It would be interesting to see another North German interior," said Minora; "and I should be obliged if you would take me.
"But what has the mistress of the house to do with washing?" "What has she to do with washing? Oh, you sweet innocent pardon my familiarity, but such ignorance of country-life customs is very touching in one who is writing a book about them." "Oh, I have no doubt I am very ignorant," said Minora loftily.
"Yes, they all say exactly the same thing," she acknowledged. "Who could murmur pretty speeches on the beauty of a common sacrifice, if the listener's want of imagination was such as to enable her only to distinguish one victim in the picture, and that one herself?" Minora took that down word for word, much good may it do her.
"Oh, we are never ill," said I; "the very knowledge that there would be no one to cure us seems to keep us healthy." "And if any one takes to her bed," said Irais, "Elizabeth always calls in the cow-doctor." Minora was silent.
As for bruises, nobody who skates decently regards it as a bruise-producing exercise, and whenever there were any they were all on Minora; but she did happen to turn round once, I remember, just as I was in the act of tumbling down for the first and only time, and her delight was but thinly veiled by her excessive solicitude and sympathy.
The flame of my affection for Irais burns very brightly on the day of her arrival; besides, this time I have prudently provided against her sinning with the salt-cellars by ordering them to be handed round like vegetable dishes. We had finished tea and she had gone up to her room to dress before Minora and her bicycle were got here.
Though you're given to describe Woman as a dummes Weib. You yourself are sillier far, Prattling, bimetallic star!" "No doubt she had understood very little," said the Man of Wrath, taking no notice of this effusion. "And no doubt the gentleman hadn't understood much either." Irais was plainly irritated. "Your opinion of woman," said Minora in a very small voice, "is not a high one.
I don't know why it should be given to cooks to see such interesting things and withheld from me, but I have had two others since she left, and they both have seen the ghost. Minora grows very silent as bed-time approaches, and relents towards Irais and myself; and, after having shown us all day how little she approves us, when the bedroom candles are brought she quite begins to cling.
Neither do I like sick husbands, so, full of sympathy, I begged her to come, and here she is. And the other is Minora. Why I have to have Minora I don't know, for I was not even aware of her existence a fortnight ago.
"I always listen when people talk sensibly," replied Minora, stirring her grog. Irais glanced at her with slightly doubtful eyebrows. "Do you agree with our hostess's description of women?" she asked after a pause. "As nobodies? No, of course I do not." "Yet she is right. In the eye of the law we are literally nobodies in our country.
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