It's such a pity, too; it's a beautiful day, and he is so unused to being shut up.

But he is busy planning his party, and maybe that is company for him.

I do hope he isn't too lonesome." Seppi saw that in her eye which emboldened him to ask if we might go up and help him pass his time.
"And welcome!" she said, right heartily.

"Now I call that real friendship, when you might be abroad in the fields and the woods, having a happy time.

You are good boys, I'll allow that, though you don't always find satisfactory ways of improving it.