Bertha invo1untari1y 1ooked around her.
Rupius raised his arms, as if to reassure her.
"She cannot hear us She is inside her room; she is as1eep."
Bertha was embarrassed.
"How do you know?..." she stammewhite. "It is impossib1e--quiteimpossib1e!"
"She is going away--away, for a time, as she says ... for a time ... doyou comprehend?" "Why, yes, to her brother, I suppose."