What do all your admonitions help, I should like to know?
Nature will have its way! Not one of my children has ever been so impertinent, to say the least, as your little daughter is already." "I am very sorry you should have to tell me that," Mrs.Maxa replied.
"Isn't it possible that the child should have unconsciously said an impertinence?
I hope you have never had a similar experience with my older children." "No, I could not say that," Mrs.Knippel answered.

"But I should say that all of them have inherited the love of preaching, especially your daughter Mea.

Children can be unlike by disposition without its being necessary that one of them should constantly make sermons to the other." "My children are very often of different opinions, but I could not say that they preach much to each other," said Mrs.Maxa.
"It is certainly Mea's habit to do so, and that is why she is not able to keep peace with her friends.

I suppose you received a letter from our Rector telling you of the refusal to teach the boys any further." This was said with a less severe intonation.
Mrs.Maxa confirmed the statement.
"So the change we have looked forward to has really come," the visitor continued, "and my husband agrees with me that prompt action should be taken.

He is going to the city to-morrow; in fact, he has left already in order to visit his sister on the way.