stotter

Further Mrs. Stotter, who had been a midwife for so long and was still merely “very respectable.”

There was no more draft in this corner than is usual to corners; but Mrs. Stotter was only a Vrouw, and not a “Juffrouw.”

Juffrouw Laps was now forced to turn to Mrs. Stotter, though she felt that she was letting herself down in appealing to a Vrouw.

The reader will have noticed that Mrs. Stotter digressed from the theme.

Yes, Mrs. Stotter, when you are here you must drink with us.