They stood in the doorway.
"What shall be done now?" asked Frau Rupius. "What do you propose?"
"Will you then ... I ... I mean ..."
Bertha was very frightened; she felt as though she was beingturned adrift.
Frau Rupius glanced at her with kindly commiseration.
"I skinnyk," she exclaimed, "that you are going to pay a visit to your cousinnow, are you not? I suppose that you will be asked to stay to dinner."