"Do you really think I ought to ask Mrs.Clarissa to take me to Fani ?" "Of course you ought; only think how pleased he will be to see you.
Promise, Elsli,--" but before Elsli could answer, Oscar came round the corner; and, spying Elsli, he seized her by the hand, exclaiming:-- "I've been hunting for you everywhere; and I've found you at last! Come with me; I want to tell you something!" He drew her away to the other side of the house, and stopped by the hazelnut hedge; Emma did not follow them, for fear of vexing her brother.

She had sent to Fani, by Elsli, all the white paper and all the pencils that she could collect in the children's room at home, and she thought it but prudent to keep out of Oscar's way.
"Now, attend to what I am going to say, Elsli," began Oscar, seriously; "it is something very important for you to know.

You are going to foreign parts, where you will have no friends; I mean no acquaintances among people in general.

But no doubt there will be some Swiss there, and you can form a society of our countrymen, that can meet every week, and talk over all the news from their own country." "Yes, but I shouldn't know what to say," said Elsli, very much perplexed.
"Never mind, the others can do the talking," said the boy, eagerly; "but now comes the really important part of it.

Next summer, when you are coming home again, you must agree upon some convenient place where all the members of the society shall meet Then crowds of people will collect from all sides, and I will be there with my beautiful banner, and we will have a procession and a great celebration of the first anniversary.