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All this he said in a tone the sharpness of which was so little in keeping with the meaning of his words that Bertha sought in vain for a reply. Rupius, however, continued at once: "Well, and what else did you see besides the Museum?" With great animation, Bertha began to tell all sorts of things about her visit to Vienna.
"So it's settled then," she said; "you will call for me at three o'clock, won't you?" "Yes," replied Frau Rupius; "that is to say but if I should be a little late, do not on any account wait for me at your cousin's any longer than you want to. In any case, this much is settled: we will both be at the railway station at seven o'clock this evening. Good-bye for the present."
"But what do you mean, Frau Martin? I accompanied Frau Rupius to her brother's house, and called for her there on my way back." "And are you convinced that she was with her brother the whole time?" "I really don't know what you expect Frau Rupius to do! Where would she have been then?" "Well," said Frau Martin; "really, you are an artless creature. I must say or are you only putting on?
The door opened and Frau Rupius entered in a bright spring costume, a red sunshade in her hand and a white straw hat, trimmed with red ribbon, on her dark hair, which was dressed high. A pleasant smile was hovering around her lips, as usual, and she greeted Bertha with a quiet cheerfulness.
There was a note of the deepest hatred in Frau Rupius' voice. Bertha was quite frightened. She had never thought it possible that Frau Rupius could have said such things. "Yes, why shouldn't you know what kind of men they are amongst whom you are living?" continued Frau Rupius. "No, I would never have thought it possible! If my brother-in-law knew about it! "If he knew about it?
Bertha looked out through the open carriage window upon the landscape: Frau Rupius read a book, which she had taken out of her little traveling-bag very soon after the train had started. It almost appeared as though she wished to avoid any lengthy conversation with Bertha, and the latter felt somewhat hurt.
"No, no, I mean that we shall both how shall I express it? pass or end our lives yonder" she gave a slight nod in the direction of the place from which they came. "Very true, indeed!" answered Bertha, who had not yet considered whether there was anything really strange in the fact or not. "Well, you, of course, knew it the moment you were married, but I " Frau Rupius gazed straight before her.
It was perhaps just as well that she could return home that very day. She thought of her boy, how he was accustomed to lie in his little cot with his whole face beaming with laughter, if his mother leaned over the railings. She yearned for him. Also she yearned in some slight degree for Elly and for Frau Rupius.
She did not venture to read over what she had written, but left the house at once so as to take the letter herself to the railway station. There she saw Frau Rupius, a few paces in front of her, accompanied by a maid who was carrying a small valise. What could that mean? She caught up Frau Rupius, just as the latter was going into the waiting room.
She experienced a sensation such as might come over a traveller returning after a long absence to a longed-for home, which had probably altered greatly in the meantime, and where surprises and mysteries of all kinds awaited him. At the moment when the train rolled into the station she seemed almost courageous in her own eyes. Frau Rupius took a carriage, and they drove into the town.
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