"Yes, I am a child! Therefore you should have indulgence with me!" sobbed the girl.
"Listen! How far shall one have indulgence with a child?"
"Infinitely!"
"No! I have never heard that! There is a perfectly determined limit, where dissoluteness approaches criminal action."
"What do you mean?"
And now she jumped up.
"You know what I mean, I see that," answered the commissioner, who was again free from the enchantment, for as soon as she became hard, at the same moment she became ugly.
"Jealous, thus!" sneered the girl, who believed she had caught him.
"No, for jealousy is an uncalled for suspicion, sometimes a measure of prudence, but my apprehensions have proved to be well founded. Therefore I am not jealous!"
"And of a boy! A whelp, that you are standing so far above," continued the girl without taking the explanation into consideration.