"Are you taking the tea home to your father and mother?"
"My father is away fishing with Guillaumy."
"What do you do in the island in the winter?"
"We make nets; we fish in the lakes by breaking the ice; on Sundays we go to Mass and Vespers or we sing hymns; and then we play in the snow and watch the boys hunting the polar bears."
"Will your father be back soon?"
"Oh no: the skipper is taking the ship to Genoa with Guillaumy."
"But Guillaumy will come home again?"
"Oh yes, next season, when the fishermen return. He is going to bring me a striped silk bodice in his stock, a muslin skirt, and a black necklace."
"And you will be decked out for the wind, the mountains, and the sea. Would you like me to send you a bodice, a skirt, and a necklace?"
"Oh no!"