"Oh yes," she said.
"I see on your card that you danced two dances with Captain Lagerskiöld. I suppose he dances awfully well, eh?"
"Do you know him?" asked Arla, and turned on the chair.
"Oh yes, I do. Didn't he ask for me?"
"Yes, now I remember. He said he had seen you with the children on the coasting-hill. You must have been a little rude to him?"
The whole head came out above the cover now.
"Rude! how?"
"He said something about your being so pert."
"Pert? Oh, what a fib you do tell!" cried Gurli, and sat up in bed with a jump.
"I don't usually tell stories," said Arla with wounded dignity, but blushed at the same time.