What am I saying?
Pleasure! I was indescribably desolate and alone among all those vain, bedizened strangers.

I was like a shipwrecked sailor washed ashore by the waves and surrounded by people whose language is unfamiliar." "But half Nuremberg was at the ball," her sister interrupted.

"Now you see the trouble, darling.

Whoever, like you, remains in seclusion and mounts a tall tree to be entirely alone, will be deserted; for who would be kind-hearted enough to learn to climb for your sake?
But it seems that afterwards one and another----" "Oh!" Eva interrupted, "if you think that any of your friends gave me more than a passing greeting, you are mistaken.

Not even Barbel, Ann, or Metz took any special notice of your sister.