Hearing somebody else coming upstairs, he prepared to repeat his speech.
When Nika was near enough to hear him he said: "A fat gentleman has been here, and when he was gone mother said: 'Oh God!' and you are not to paint any more trees and flowers." Nika, not having seen Mr.Schaller, did not understand these words.
Unruffled and silent, she passed Mux and went into the other room, which disappointed Mux terribly.

So when he heard Dino coming up the stairs, he unloaded his disappointment on him.
"We are not going to have them to-day," he announced.
"What do you think we will have?
What am I supposed to be thinking of, little guesser ?" Dino called out.
"Oh, I know.

Whenever you think we are going to have green peas for lunch, you run up very quickly.

You can't even wait, you love them so," Mux asserted.

"But we won't have any to-day, for we are going to have cabbage instead.