"Triddelsitz," said she finally, "what am I to think of you?"
With that, she came round from her position behind him, and placed herself before his face, with arms akimbo.
"Mariken," said he, alarmed and confused, "what do you mean?"
"What do I mean? shall I, speak out more clearly?" exclaimed she, and the sweet, tender expression was quite gone from her eyes. "Am I a person to be made a fool of?"
Then she went back again, and slapped a cold bandage on his shoulders, with emphasis.
"Oh! Thunder!" cried Fritz, "that hurts!"
"So? It hurts, does it? Do you think it doesn't hurt me, to find that a man for whom I have done so much means to betray me?"
"Mariken, I ask you, what do you mean?"
"What do I mean? I mean"--with another emphatic bandage--"will you tell me what to think of you?"
"Thunder and lightning! That burns like fire!"