They then all embraced, and twining their arms about each other began to go back along the road down which they had arrived.
When they passed by Smaly, who was still standing at the door of the kitchen, he demanded:
"But who won?"
The young girls were quite unable to understand what this question meant. They smiled divinely at him with their delicately curved mouths, then each one showed him her ball made of pearly sugar.
CHAPTER XII
The Mother of the Crow tells of the life and death of Djorak in his own country.
All this time Smaly and Redy had remained in the great kitchen. Suddenly they heard a voice say:
"It's confoundedly cold in this disgusting kitchen."