"Please ask for at least two or three weeks, Mama.

It is so nice to have Cornelli with us." "I shall ask Cornelli's father to let us have his daughter a while longer," said the mother, "I cannot possibly settle the time, her father will do that." "Oh, yes, a while longer is just right.

Then it is so easy to ask for a little more time, for we can say that we meant that by a little longer," said Dino.
The same day, later on, while Dino was resting, Cornelli was sitting with Mux.

They were both so happy over the prospect of remaining together that Mux opened the piano and asked Cornelli to sing with him.

Cornelli could not play, so promised that she would try to sing.
She asked Mux to choose a song, but he knew none.
"You sing one," he proposed, "and I might know it, too." Cornelli was just in the mood to sing once more.