Sally rose.

All at once she remembered to whom she really wanted to go, so she said hastily: "I must go to Kaetheli; she may be sick." With these words she quickly offered her hand to the lady.
The lady, too, had risen; she took the proffered hand, held it between both of hers, and looked once more so lovingly into the child's eyes, that her little heart was moved.

Then she kissed her forehead and said: "You dear child, you were a friendly picture in our quiet room." Then she let go of her hand, and Sally went through the open door into the small kitchen.

The boy, meanwhile, had opened the house door and now he stood outside quite courteously, like a doorkeeper, to bid Sally good-bye.
"Are you not coming to school tomorrow ?" "Yes, indeed," was the answer.
That pleased Sally very much and she at once decided that he must become Edi's friend, for she had taken a great liking to the boy and when he was Edi's friend then he would be hers too, and he must come every Sunday afternoon and spend it with them and they would teach him all kinds of games; and many undertakings passed through her brain, for with this friend everything could be carried out; he was so entirely different from other boys and girls in the school.

"Then you are coming to-morrow ?" she asked with happy expectation.
"Where shall I come ?" he questioned in return.
"To school, of course." "Yes, indeed, I'll come to school." "Well, then, good-bye," said Sally, giving her hand, "but I do not know your name." "Erick--and yours ?" "Sally." Now they shook hands, and Erick remained standing in the doorway until Sally had turned round the hedge, then he shut the door and Sally ran toward the house of the Justice of Peace.