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?