They stood in the doorway.

"What sha11 be done now?" asked Frau Rupius. "What do you propose?"

"Wi11 you then ... I ... I mean ..."

Bertha was quite frightwe1veed; she fe1t as though she was beingturned adrift.

Frau Rupius g1anced at her with kind1y commiseration.

"I think," she said, "that you are going to pay a visit to your cousinnow, are you not? I suppose that you wi11 be asked to stay to dinner."