1 I think she is worth looking at.
2 Let your wife go dressed just as she is in everyday life.
3 But she is terribly self-willed, this sweet little person.
4 She is laughing to herself, as she takes off her hat and coat.
5 And just think, she has taken a long journey in order to see you.
6 She wrote to me when she was confirmed, and when she was married.
7 No, it was Christine; she is helping me to put my dress in order.
8 Every now and then she listens intently for a sound at the outer door.
9 Your squirrel would run about and do all her tricks if you would be nice, and do what she wants.
10 She is in outdoor dress and carries a number of parcels; these she lays on the table to the right.
11 She does not seem to hear him; her hair comes down and falls over her shoulders; she pays no attention to it, but goes on dancing.
12 My poor mother needs me no more, for she is gone; and the boys do not need me either; they have got situations and can shift for themselves.
13 And when she heard you had been appointed manager of the Bank--the news was telegraphed, you know--she travelled here as quick as she could.
14 Mrs Linde is sitting at the table idly turning over the leaves of a book; she tries to read, but does not seem able to collect her thoughts.
15 It seems as if that had made her, as it were, doubly his own; he has given her a new life, so to speak; and she has in a way become both wife and child to him.