Roswitha and Johanna washed the wound with cold water and
decided to tie it up with the long bandage once used to bind the
mother's sprained ankle. In their search for the bandage they broke
open the lock to the sewing table drawers, which they began to empty
of their contents. Among other things they took out a small package of
letters tied up with a red silk cord. Before they had ended the search
Innstetten came home. He examined the wound and sent for Dr.
Rummschuettel. After scolding Annie and telling her what she must do
till her mother came home, he sat down with her to dine and promised
to read her a letter just received from her mother.]
CHAPTER XXVII
For a while Innstetten sat at the table with Annie in silence.
Finally, when the stillness became painful to him, he asked her a few
questions about the school superintendent and which teacher she liked
best. She answered rather listlessly, because she felt he was not
paying much attention. The situation was not improved till Johanna
whispered to little Annie, after the second course, that there was
something else to come. And surely enough, good Roswitha, who felt
under obligation to her pet on this unlucky day, had prepared
something extra. She had risen to an omelet with sliced apple filling.
The sight of it made Annie somewhat more talkative. Innstetten's frame
of mind was likewise bettered when the doorbell rang a moment later
and Dr. Rummschuettel entered, quite accidentally.
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