Since it did not come and no one seemed to trouble about him, he settled himself firmly in his seat and ate everything that was on Sally's and his mother's plates.
When the father went out in the garden soon after, the mother followed him and led him to the small bench under the apple tree.

Seated there she told him what Sally, continuously interrupted by loud sobbing, had told her: what had happened during the past night in Marianne's cottage.
And she now asked her husband whether he did not think that some enquiries ought to be made about these strangers, and whether one ought not to do something for the little boy who, as it seemed, was standing all alone in the world.

But the pastor was not of her opinion, and said that these people had turned to Lower Wood for school and church, therefore he could not interfere at present.

His colleague in Lower Wood would no doubt take everything in hand and see what could be done with the boy.

He was sure that the pastor in Lower Wood would find some relations of the boy, and he perhaps knew already more about the strangers, than was suspected.