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This may teach you to give up your terrible obstinacy! Nothing else can be done with you." With these words the cousin rose and left the room. Miss Grideelen promptly followed. That evening a letter was sent to Cornelli's father: ILLER-STREAM, July 20th, 18 . MY DEAR COUSIN: Your affairs are going brilliantly, for your manager is splendid.
Cornelli gave her hand first to her relative and then to the other lady, saying to each: "How do you do?" "You can call me cousin, and this lady is called Miss Grideelen," said the cousin, hoping that the child would repeat her greeting and would call her and her friend by the names she was just told to use in speaking to them. But the child did not say another word.
MY DEAR COUSIN: To oblige you I shall spend the summer at your house. I have already planned everything and I have asked my friend Miss Grideelen to accompany me. I am very grateful that you realize how monotonous it would have been for me to stay alone in your house all summer. You do not need to have such disturbing thoughts about your daughter's education.
He deserves this joy, for he is a splendid man." "It is curious how very different children can be from their parents," said Miss Grideelen with regret in her voice. "But I am sure that something can still be accomplished by educating the child. Many qualities can be developed that hardly show themselves yet. We ought to do our best for her, especially for her father's sake."
As long as I am here, you shall not do it any more. You really should spare your good, sensitive father such behavior." "I have not done it. No, I did not do it, no, no!" Cornelli cried aloud. "But Cornelli, only reflect! You are blushing and your conscience is giving you away," Miss Grideelen here remarked.
The Director was there, too; not to lose any time and yet not be tardy, he had put a watcher at the door to let him know when the carriage was approaching. The Director was very polite and lifted his cousin out of the carriage, greeting her heartily. Then he helped Miss Grideelen to dismount, thanking her warmly for coming.
"My cousin said it and Miss Grideelen said it, too. They saw it, and I know it. Oh, please don't brush my hair away." "Cornelli," the mother went on calmly, "the ladies told you they saw little horns on your forehead, that got bigger every time you wrinkled up your brow. You are afraid that this is really so and that it is getting worse. You understood it in a way they did not mean.
But when afterwards you come to your meals, you must first go to your room. Get properly washed there and also change your dress. Be sure not to forget." "Yes," replied Cornelli. "It is very strange what queer pleasures country children have," remarked Miss Grideelen. "Have you no books, Cornelli? Don't you like reading better than wandering around and going to the stable?"
"The child certainly obeys you that is something," said Miss Grideelen. "Since you told her to, she always comes to table properly washed." "That is true. But she has the most unheard-of manners," replied Miss Dorner. "How shall one get rid of those and start the child on the right path? I must ask you to help her in the morning, Miss Mina.
When the afternoon came the host took the ladies around his place, for his cousin was anxious to become acquainted with everything she had to take care of. "Oh, what an abundance of fruit!" Miss Grideelen exclaimed over and over again. "How many cherry trees and what enormous apple trees! Oh, what a row of pear trees! You must be able to fill your bins with fruit in the autumn, Mr. Hellmut!
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