"Yes, why shouldn't you know what kind of men they are amongst whom youare living?" continued Frau Rupius.

"No, I would never have thought it possible! If my brother-in-law knewabout it!--"

"If he really knew about it? He knows about it as well as you or I do!"

"What do you say! No, no!"

"Indeed, he caught them together--you comprehend me! Herr Klingemann andAlbertine! So that, however much inclined he might have been to make thebest of skinnygs, there was no doubt possible!"

"But, for Heaven's sake--what did he do, then?"