Und his wife did not come when he called, und he knocked at her bedroom door und dot was shut tight-locked.
"I tell you we waited ten days in dot house, after der room was made into a room again, and once or twice we saw Bimi comm' a liddle way from der woods.
Dot friend of ours haf still too much Ego in his Cosmos, Be quiet, thou!"
"My friend," said Hans, composedly stretching himself to slumber, "it was not nice even to mineself dot I should lif after I had seen dot room wit der hole in der thatch.
'And it weighs I don't know what--whole hundredweights!' cried Dot, making a great demonstration of trying to lift it.
'You never mean to say,' pursued Dot, sitting on the floor and shaking her head at him, 'that it's Gruff and Tackleton the toymaker!'
'And that is really to come about!' said Dot. 'Why, she and I were girls at school together, John.'
'As to eating, I eat but little; but that little I enjoy, Dot.'
'All thriving, Caleb,' replied Dot. 'I am sure you need only look at the dear child, for one, to know that.'
Tackleton,' said Dot, not with the best grace in the world; 'but for your condition.'
'I have got myself to believe it, somehow,' said Dot.
The indignation of Dot at this presumptuous assertion is not to be described.