"Yes, especially for a school teacher," repeated Nanna.
"But you speak so abstractedly. You are not so lively as usual."
"I did not know it; but if Gottlieb says so, it must be true. When one has been so glad as I have been to-day, and then as sorrowful, it takes much courage to meet the change indifferently."
"But, dear Nanna, you were aware that I should be forced to go away soon."
"I did not know that you were going so soon as to-morrow morning."
"Neither did I, myself, when I saw you yesterday; but when I determined to go by the steamboat, you perceive that—"
"Yes, yes."
"And then again what difference will a day or two more or less make, when we part—"
"Never again to meet," interrupted Nanna.
"You will do right in the meantime not to hope too much."