"I know what," responded Mux knowingly, while Agnes looked back at Dino as if to say: If I had time I certainly would give an answer to you.
"What is it, wise little man ?" asked Dino.
"If she had to eat nothing but cabbage all the time," replied Mux, full of a conviction which he seemed to have acquired from his own experience.
Dino, too, prepared to depart.

With a sorrowful look, the mother passed her hand over the boy's thick hair.

"Please be careful, and do not run too fast," she begged.

"It's very bad for you to sit in the cool school room when you are so overheated.

I can scarcely ever see you go, without anxiety." "But I am surely not as sick as that, little mother," Dino said, tenderly embracing her.