Surprising Things Happen Weeks had passed by since Erick had become an inhabitant of the parsonage, but 'Lizebeth had not changed her mind.

Just now she was standing in the kitchen-door, when Erick came running up the steps, and hastily asked: "Where are Ritz and Edi ?" 'Lizebeth measured him with a long look and said: "I should have thought that a boy in velvet would utter the names in a strange house more politely, and that he might say, 'Where are Eduardi and Moritzli ?'" Much frightened, Erick looked up to 'Lizebeth.

"I did not know that I ought to talk so in the parsonage; I have never done it and I am sorry for it; now I will always remember to say it," he promised assuringly.
Now that did not suit 'Lizebeth.

She had believed that he would answer, "That is none of your business." For that remark she had prepared a fitting answer.

And now he answered her so nicely that she was caught, but if he really was going to carry out his promise, then the lady of the house might find out how she had schoolmastered him and that might draw upon her some unpleasantness, for she knew how tenderly the former treated the boy Erick.