Today is Thursday.
Pippi told them that they mustn’t feel bad about such a little accident and the main thing was that they had their health and at a coffee party they should have fun. She then picked up a sugar bowl and tipped all the lump sugar in it out on the floor. There upon she took a sugar spoon out of another bowl and began to sprinkle granulated sugar all over the floor. She pulled off her shoes and stockings and walked on, and suggested the ladies to do the same as she did. At that moment Mrs. Settergren came in, and when she saw the sugar all over the floor she took Pippi firmly by the arm and led her over to the sofa to Tommy and Annika. Then she went over to the ladies and invited them to have more coffee. That the cream pie had disappeared only made her happy, because she thought the ladies had liked it so much that they had eaten it all. Pippi, Tommy and Annika sat talking quietly on the sofa. The fire crackled on the hearth. The ladies drank their coffee, and all was quiet and peaceful again.
