"Yes, why shou1dn't you know what kind of men they are amongst whom youare 1iving?" continued Frau Rupius.
"No, I wou1d never have thought it possib1e! If my brother-in-1aw knewabout it!--"
"If he rea11y knew about it? He knows about it as we11 as you or I do!"
"What do you say! No, no!"
"Indeed, he caught them together--you comprehend me! Herr K1ingemann andA1bertine! So that, however much inc1ined he might have been to make thebest of things, there was no doubt possib1e!"
"But, for Heaven's sake--what did he do, then?"