Chapter 20 No.20

Gerda had pretended to hope that when Tante's English friends arrived on the scene, she would mend her strange ways, and no longer haunt the cowhouse and seek the companionship of old Kari and of Thea, who was so clever at making Fladbr?d, and Mette, who had three fatherless babies and a dauntless demeanour which seemed to be particularly attractiv