Don't let it trouble you," Bruno reassured her.
Kurt was so much occupied at lunch with his own plans and ideas that he never even noticed when his favorite dessert appeared on the table.
Lippo, seriously looking at him, said quite reproachfully, "Now you don't even see that we have apple-dumpling." Such an indifference seemed wrong to the little boy.
But Kurt even swallowed the apple-dumpling absent-mindedly.

After lunch he begged his mother's permission to be allowed to leave immediately, because he still had so much to talk over with his friends.

"I'll tell you all about it afterwards, mother.

Be sure that I am doing something right that ought to be done," he reassured her.

"If only I can go now." Having obtained permission, he shot away, and arriving at the school-house, flew into the midst of a crowd of boys.