How referential of Betts!

When Sophie announces her plan to marry Rijk to the other nurses, one of them says, "When you're married you can invite me to stay; there must be lots of people like him out there" (p. 74-75). This is funny, of course, because the Netherlands are well-stocked with men who are almost identical. It wouldn't do Sophie much good to invite her friend, though, because each of those similar men is already married to an English nurse.