All the children looked back.
"Let me try," said Helena, smiling. Then she shouted: "Dobrou noc! Dobrou noc! Good night! Good night!"
"Dobrou noc! Good night!" came back as before.
"It's a mocking spirit," said Marouska, walking as close to Helena as she could.
"It's only the Echo Spirit," returned Helena, laughing.
"Ha! Ha! Ha!" was returned from the woods so clearly that Marouska seized Helena by the hand.
They had reached the edge of the forest. It was still day outside and Marouska soon forgot that she had almost been really afraid.
She remembered it, however, the next day when a heavy summer shower came with lightning and thunder.
"I wonder what the spirit does when it rains," she said to herself.