Cornelli herself shall decide, but we all want her to stay." "Don't go, don't go! Tell him not to come for a long while," Mux implored her.

The little boy had slipped in behind his mother and was keeping a tight hold on Cornelli, as if her papa might come at once to pull her away.
"No, no, Cornelli, you won't go away yet," Dino now said.

"To-morrow I am allowed to get up for the first time and you must be there to see if I can still walk.

After that you must stay here till I go to school; won't you, Cornelli?
You don't want to go, do you ?" "You must not urge her too much," said the mother.

"Maybe Cornelli would rather go home, and by your talking you might keep her from saying so." But being urged by the two children was such a joy to Cornelli that she never even hesitated.
"I should love to stay," she said.
"Oh, how splendid!" Dino exclaimed.