But Sepp, having had his gossip like a true South German hunter-man, finally did ask the important question:
“Ach! supper! du lieber Himmel!” There was little enough of that for the Herrschaften. There was black bread and milk, and there were some Semmel, but those were very old and hard.
“No cheese?”
“Nein!”
“No butter?”
“Nein!”
“Coffee?”
“Yes, but no sugar.”
“Herr Je!”
When Sepp delivered this news to his party they all laughed and said black bread and milk would do. So Nani invited them into her only room—the rest of the “Hütterl” was kitchen and cow-shed—and brought the feast.