Then Mrs.Maxa related the incident of the evening before as it occurred.
"That is nothing at all," said the district attorney's wife in answer.
"Those are only childish jokes.

All children hold out their feet sometimes to trip each other.

Such things should not be reckoned as faults big enough to scold children for." "I do not agree with you," said Mrs.Maxa.

"Such kinds of jokes are very much akin to roughness, and from small cruelties larger ones soon result.

Loneli has really suffered harm from this action, and I think that joking ceases under such circumstances." "As I said, it is not worth the trouble of losing so many words about.