"What did he say?" asked Sigrid, who was too far off to hear.
"She dropped her doll overboard while she was waving her hand to some children on the shore. Poor child! she is all alone with her father."
"Is she an English girl?" asked Sigrid.
"I think she is an American. Perhaps she would like some of your twisted ring cakes, when she stops crying."
When the child's sobs finally ceased, Mrs. Lund said to her kindly:
"Won't you come and sit beside my little daughter? She wants to give you some of her cakes."
The two children glanced at each other shyly.
"May I, father?" asked the American child.
"Certainly, Anna. You are very kind to amuse her," said the stranger politely to Mrs. Lund.
Sigrid could speak in English as well as Swedish, which seemed to surprise Anna.