"Come in here," she said, and shoved him into the living-room, "and take out your things." Now she sat down beside him and the whole affair proceeded finely.

Not that Auntie formed the sentences, no indeed, she was not going to cheat the teacher; but she knew well what was needed to form a sentence and she pushed and spurred Ritz and brought so many things before him, and reminded him how they looked, that he had his three sentences and his nine qualities together in no time.

Now there came a feeling to Ritz that he had not acted right, when he said that an aunt must not always be reminding people, and when now Auntie asked: "Ritz, why had you to write the sentences ?" then the feeling grew stronger in him, for he felt that he could not tell the cause of his punishment without making his aunt angry.

He stuttered, "I have--I have--the teacher has said, that I made an unfitting sentence." "Yes, I can imagine that," said Auntie.

"Now quickly to bed." Edi and Ritz slept in the same room and that was the place where the two boys, every evening after the mother had said evening prayer with them, and they were alone, exchanged their deepest thoughts and experiences with one another and talked them over.