“They did wake up! That was Saba’s doing; he came running along and began to bark enough to awaken the dead.”
Then she was angry with Saba.
“Horrid Saba! For doing that I shall not say a word to him when he comes running up! I shall just tell him that he is bad!”
Although Stasch was not in a laughing mood, he smiled and asked:
“How can you not speak a word to him and at the same time tell him that he is bad?”
Nell elevated her eyebrows to show her annoyance, and with a shy voice replied:
“He will see that by my face.”
“Maybe. But he was not to blame, because he did not know what was going on; remember, too, that he came to our assistance.”
The remembrance of this somewhat cooled Nell’s anger, but she did not wish to forgive the evil-doer at once.
“Very well,” she said; “but a real gentleman ought not to bark when greeting you.”