Entering the room together they sat down just as they did the first day of their acquaintance.

Martha went out, because she knew that the children would get along better alone, and she was very anxious for the two to become good friends.
"Your small white kid is growing more cunning every day," said Dino.
"You should see it when it bounds about so gaily." "I don't care if I see it again or not.

Nothing matters at all to me," Cornelli returned in a most unfriendly manner.
"No, this is not true," said Dino, laughing kindly.

"When one talks that way it shows that one cares a great deal and that one is full of bitter thoughts, just because one can't have what one wants.

I know that very well; I do exactly the same thing." Cornelli was so astonished by Dino's knowledge in the matter that she gazed at him dumfounded.
"Oh, yes, I know how it is," he repeated.