“And this is Miss Marit in print?”
“Ja.”
She took the book and tried to read it.
“Nikka Forstoe!”—she didn’t understand.
“What does it say?” she asked, rather gravely.
Here was a job—to translate the paragraph into Norwegian! Besides, it would not do to translate it literally, so I made a sort of impromptu paraphrase upon it.
“Oh! it says Miss Marit is a very pretty young lady.”
“Ja!”—blushing and looking somewhat astonished.
“And Miss Marit is a very nice housekeeper.”
“Ja.”