You have been accustomed to live at Berlin with a table of four dishes; that is all you want here: and I will invite you now and then to Berlin; which will spare table and housekeeping.' "For a long while my heart had been getting big; I could not restrain my tears, at hearing all these indignities.

'Why do you cry ?' said he: 'Ah, ah, you are in low spirits, I see.

We must dissipate that dark humor.
The music waits us; I will drive that fit out of you by an air or two on the flute.' He gave me his hand, and led me into the other room.

I sat down to the harpsichord; which I inundated (INONDAI) with my tears.
Marwitz [my artful Demoiselle d'Atours, perhaps too artful in time coming] placed herself opposite me, so as to hide from the others what disorder I was in." [Wilhelmina, ii.

216-218.] For the last two days of the visit, Wilhelmina admits, her Brother was a little kinder.