He closed with an assurance that he would be the happier to do so because Bruno had always been very dear to him.
Mrs.Maxa, sitting silently with folded hands, was lost in thought.
This was something that happened very seldom.
But Mea stood before her and trying to get her sympathy with passionate gestures.

"Just think, mother," she cried out, "Elvira is so angry now that she will never have anything more to do with me, no never.

But she was most offended because I told her that it was wrong of her; not to admit that she had chattered in school.

She said quite sarcastically that if I chose to correct her on account of that raggedy Loneli, I should keep Loneli for a friend and not her." "Let her be for once," said the mother.

"Till now you have always gone after her; so do what she wishes this time.