Nodding, Ivan attempts a few sentences but realizes that he lacks the vocabulary for all of them. In the end, he decides on: "Not many childs."

It's neither a positive nor a negative thing to him, but it does make him wonder how his father wants to get his education going. Timo said that he wanted him to learn more than the little that he knows, but if there are no other children, his father won't be able to pawn him off on their teachers - that is how it happened back where he is from. If children visited and were accompanied by a governess or another type of teacher because they stayed that long, he was sent to learn with them, but he was never considered important enough to employ someone for his sake if that road could be walked, too.

As with most things, he guesses that he will find out.