It was Sally, the ten-year-old sister of the two boys, with her friend Kaetheli, who with great excitement seemed to describe an occurrence.
"But Kaetheli, I do not know the beginning," said Sally.

"Just you begin at the beginning, from where you saw everything with your own eyes, will you ?" "Very well, I will, but this time you must pay close attention," said Kaetheli.

"You know that the old blind straw-plaiter lived with the little girl Meili at old Marianne's?
Well, Meili went to school at Lower Wood.

Two weeks ago her father died and Meili had to go to Lower Wood to her uncle.

Then Marianne cleaned the bedroom and the sitting-room terribly clean, opened all the windows, and afterwards closed them all again and put on the shutters.