"Not yet? When, then?"
Oyvind did not answer.
"What do you mean by yet?"
As the youth did not answer, the school-master said,—
"Come, now, no such nonsense."
"No, I will not go."
He was very decided and at the same time agitated.
"The idea of your own school-master standing here and begging you to go to a dance."
There was a long pause.
"Is there any one in there whom you are afraid to see?"