"You know us all so well now." "Oh, because I am not like Agnes and Nika.

I can't do anything they do and I don't look the way they do," said Cornelli.

With these words she frowned again in the old way, so that one could see it through the thick fringes of hair that covered her forehead.
The mother said no more and went out.
"Just stay with me, Cornelli; then you don't have to be afraid of anything," Mux said protectingly.

"I am afraid of nothing in the whole world--except of the dark," he added quickly, for he had seen Cornelli's penetrating eyes looking at him through her hair, and felt that he had to tell the truth, for she was sure to find him out.

"No," he continued, "I won't be even afraid of that if you stay with me all the time." Agnes had finished her school work sooner than ever that day.