She forgot to thank him, and he could not say a word, but their eyes met and they both blushed.
The time passed on.
“The mistress does not come,” said Sandu a little later, “and I wanted to tell her that I had to stay some time where she sent me.”
“She will soon come,” replied Ana. “Sandu, you told Mother that I had been in the workshop?” she suddenly questioned, looking straight at him.
“I did not tell her.”
“It was not I, and I do not know who it was.”
“How Mother scolded me! And she said I had stayed a long while talking to you. Was I a long time?”
“Certainly not; you just came to tell me to put the sandals in the boxes, and then you went away.”
“Why doesn’t Mother like my talking to you when Father says you are so good?”