Perhaps she is sick; may I go to see her this afternoon?
We have no school, you know." "Aha, Sally wants to see the strange boy," the sharp-witted Edi remarked.
"You may go, Sally," the mother said, answering a questioning look from the father.

"But you will not go into any house where you have no business, just to look at strangers.

I know you are capable of doing such things.

You can start soon after dinner." Sally was very happy.

She quickly fetched her straw hat and took leave.
But outside she did not run straight through the passage-way as she usually did in similar cases, but went to the kitchen door and peeped in, and when she saw 'Lizebeth at the sink, where the latter was scraping her pans, she went in very close to the old woman and said somewhat mysteriously: "'Lizebeth, does Edi or Ritz perhaps have a torn mattress on their bed ?" 'Lizebeth stopped scraping and turned round.