It must have been awfully jolly! And didn't they dance too?
"I should just think they did.

Anders Berg is a capital fellow; he's going to set up for himself in Svelvig soon, and get married." "And were the others engaged, too ?" "Pshaw!" "Well ?" "Pooh!" "What's the matter with you?
Can't you tell me ?" "Why, it's nothing--only nonsense! There's not one of them that'll make a smith's wife--creatures that have larks now with one fellow and now with another ?" "And did you dance ?" "Oh, the 'prentices have only to run after beer; but when I'm a journeyman--but, Silla, the time--we must hurry!" he broke off suddenly.
"Oh, it's not late yet.

One more nice one with jam--do go in and buy it! Oh, do, Nikolai!" she begged, and as he ran in to get what she wanted, she called after him: "And some sweets to eat on the way home--some of those at four for a halfpenny." "Can't you eat it as you go along, Silla ?" he urged, when he came out again; "you must make haste! Just think if she heard at home that you had been with me." "Pooh, there's no hurry," and she leaned against the wall, and regaled herself--"for you see," she mumbled, "father won't be out of Mrs.
Selvig's yet a-while, and I'll say first of all that _that_ has kept me: I can reckon at least half an hour for that.

And then to mother I have the excuse that it's Saturday evening, and there were so many people in the shop that I could hardly get to the counter.

And when I won't have any supper, you know, I'll only say I've got such a headache with standing and waiting in the shop: it was so stifling in there.