Isabel occasionally took her dinners with Eva in the dining room. Eva had been excited for her company at first—spent an evening peppering Isabel with questions, a child asking, What does that mean, what does that mean! What did Hendrik do for a living, and what did that mean, and what did her father do, and what did that mean, and when did they move, and what was Isabel’s favorite subject in school, and did she have good friends in the city, and did she have a boyfriend, a liefje, would she ever want to—
