Ve be neighbors alvays.

I get farm next you.

I halp you build house, an' you halp me.
Maybe ve lif togedder till you git vooman, or I git vooman--if American vooman marry Norwegian man.

I stay ?" I took his hand and pressed it.

After a few days' studying over it, I made up my mind that in the kindness of his heart he had come back just to comfort me.