You will hear about it from the others, sure enough.
Johan: Hm!
Dina: But there is something else I want very much to ask you.
Johan: What is that?
Dina: I suppose it is easy to make a position for oneself over in
America?
Johan: No, it is not always easy; at first you often have to
rough it and work very hard.
Dina: I should be quite ready to do that.
Johan: You?
Dina: I can work now; I am strong and healthy; and Aunt Martha
taught me a lot.
Johan: Well, hang it, come back with us!
Dina: Ah, now you are only making fun of me; you said that to
Olaf too. But what I wanted to know is if people are so very--so
very moral over there?
Johan: Moral?
Dina: Yes; I mean are they as--as proper and as well-behaved as
they are here?
Johan: Well, at all events they are not so bad as people here
make out. You need not be afraid on that score.
Dina: You don't understand me. What I want to hear is just that
they are not so proper and so moral.
Johan: Not? What would you wish them to be, then?
Dina: I would wish them to be natural.
Johan: Well, I believe that is just what they are.
Dina: Because in that case I should get on if I went there.
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