"Just look into the water, my little miss, and tell me whether you look as you used to."
"Then you would say, Mr. Gottlieb, that by some magic spell you have driven away Miss Sophia's gloominess?"
"Yes, I can say Miss Sophia's also."
"Also?—that is a bold speech!"
"Are you angry?"
"Oh, Gottlieb!"
"Ah, Miss Nanna. Are you weeping?"
"Mr. Gottlieb may be mischievous and tantalizing enough to compel me to do so; but this time he has not succeeded."
"Well, as I cannot force you to weep, I must confess the truth, and that is—"
"That you have seen neither of them," interrupted Nanna.