"Your sister-in-law? Well, well, I will soon visit them both; but listen now—"
"I will."
"As the error has already been committed—"
"What error?"
"That you should have been taught more than you ought to know; but still, it is now too late to repent as you have already learned a little, and I do not think there will be any harm in teaching you more."
"Who will teach me?"
"I shall of course.—I have an idea."
Nanna glanced inquiringly towards her companion. "You might be able," he continued, "to earn a little competency for yourself; would you be willing to become a school-teacher?"
"O, yes, nothing could be better! Then I would not be obliged to think of—of—"
"Of marriage?"