"Are the two others his comrades, the Knippel boys ?" Kurt assented.
"I hope everything will go well," she continued.

"When those three are together outside of school they always quarrel.

When we came here first I was so glad that Bruno would have them for friends, but now I am in continual fear that they will clash." "Yes, mother," Kurt asserted, "you would never have been glad of that friendship if you had really known them.

Wherever they can harm anybody they are sure to do it, and always behind people's backs.

And Bruno always is like a loaded gun-barrel, just a little spark and he is on fire and explodes." "It is time to go in," said the mother now, taking the two youngest by the hand.