Crossword-Solution: BRITTA 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

But at last the door was flung sharply open, and the tangle-haired, rosy-cheeked Britta confronted him with an aspect which was by no means encouraging or polite.

Now, I--I am the crooked bough of a tree, but I have bright leaves where a bird hides and sings all day! You--you have no song, no foliage; only ugly and barren and fit to burn!" He laughed heartily, and, catching sight of Britta, where she stood in the doorway entirely unconcerned at his eccentric behavior, he went up to her and took hold of the corner of her apron.

You, Britta, as the favored servant of a--a--well, let us say, of a peculiar mistress, should persuade her to send this--this--person away, lest his vagaries become harmful." Britta glanced very kindly at Sigurd, who still held her apron with the air of a trustful child.

Her father and Sigurd,--accompanied by Errington and his friends,--had all gone for a mountain ramble, promising to return for supper, a substantial meal which Britta was already busy preparing.

Within the house Britta was singing cheerily at her work, and the sound of her song alone disturbed the silence.