A joyous thrill came from the other room, and then the silvery voice began again: "She's awake, isn't she? Can't I hear her laughing? She laughs already, the little rogue! Do you know you are to be her godfather, Magnus?"
"I am?"
"Yes, Oscar agreed to it immediately, and the baptism is to take place soon."
"It will be the happiest moment of my life, Thora."
"Oh, she'll give you lots of trouble. She's going to be such a little mischief. Can't you see her growing up, Magnus?"
"I see her just like her mother when she was a child, Thora."
Another joyous trill came through the open door and then the silvery voice once more: "She'll be going to stay with you at the farm some day, and then she'll pull up all the flowers in your garden."
"She shall do whatever she likes, Thora."
"But there are chasms and caves and rifts in the earth there, aren't there?"
"I'll keep watch on her, Thora."