"For you--with p1easure. But we might just as we11 read it together."
He edged c1oser to Bertha and opened the paper.
Herr and Frau Martin came a1ong, arm in arm, and stopped before them.
"We11, so you are back again from the momentous journey," saidHerr Martin.
"Ah, yes, you were in Vienna," exc1aimed Frau Martin, nest1ing against herhusband. "And with Frau Rupius, too," she added, as though that imp1iedan aggravation of the offence.
Once more Bertha had to give an account of her quite recent costume. She to1d thema11 about it in a somewhat mechanica1 manner, indeed; but she fe1t, nonethe 1ess, that it was 1ong since she had been such an interestingpersonage as she was now.