Nika, needing no advice, had long ago decided what to do.

Every day as soon as the meals were over, she silently disappeared.

Agnes and Cornelli bolted the door of the music room and let mysterious songs issue from behind it.
Only Dino was still undecided about his task.

When he was left alone with his mother and Mux one day, and all the others were busy with their preparations, he said: "Tell me what I could do, mother." "Draw him a picture of the beautiful goat," Mux advised.

He knew that Dino could draw animals well, and to him there was no finer animal in all the world than the goat.
"What a knowing goat boy you are, Mux," Dino exclaimed.