The things we do!

"You'll turn out a first-rate hand at this, after all," he
said.
Then after we'd been working a bit, the priest came out to look, and we
took off our hats. He was an oldish man, quiet and gentle in his ways and
speech; tiny wrinkles spread out fanwise from the corners of his eyes,
like the traces of a thousand kindly smiles. He was sorry to interrupt,
and hoped we wouldn't mind--but they'd so much trouble every year with the
fowls slipping through into the garden. Could we leave the well just for a
little, and come round and look at the garden wall? There was one place in
particular....
Grindhusen answered: surely; we'd manage that for him all right.
So we went up and set the crumbling wall to rights. While we were busy
there a young lady came out and stood looking on. We greeted her politely,
and I thought her a beautiful creature to see. Then a half-grown lad came
out to look, and asked all sorts of questions. The two were brother and
sister, no doubt. And the work went on easily enough with the young folk
there looking on.


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