Dino, too, prepared to depart. With a sorrowful look, the mother passed
her hand over the boy's thick hair. "Please be careful, and do not run
too fast," she begged. "It's very bad for you to sit in the cool school
room when you are so overheated. I can scarcely ever see you go, without
anxiety."
"But I am surely not as sick as that, little mother," Dino said,
tenderly embracing her. "When somebody has a cough it always goes away
again after a while. That is the way with me. Be merry and everything
will be all right in the end. But I have to go now, it is late," he
exclaimed.
"But do not hurry so terribly, Dino, there is time enough yet, and
remember what I told you," she called after him. Then stepping to the
open window, she followed the running boy down the street with her
eyes.
Dino gave Mrs. Halm great anxiety, for he seemed more delicate every
day. Her watchful eye had detected how poor his appetite had been
lately. Despite that, the boy had a very sweet disposition and was
always full of fun.
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