The things we do!

"
On the way back, Fruen had got so far as to argue quite unwarrantably that
she could manage with one maid less once they'd water laid on. And not to
fail her, I put in:
"In summer at least you might. You could water all the garden with a hose
fixed to the tap and carried out through the cellar window."
"Splendid!" she exclaimed.
But I did not venture to speak of laying a pipe to the cow-shed. I had
realized all the time that with a well twice the size, and a branch pipe
across the yard, the dairymaid would be saved as much as the kitchen-maids
in the house. But it would cost nearly twice as much. No, it was not wise
to put forward so great a scheme.
Even as it was, I had to agree to wait till Grindhusen came back. The
priest said he wanted to sleep on it.


VII

So now I had to tell Grindhusen myself, and prepare him for the new
arrangement. And lest he should turn suspicious, I threw all the blame on
the priest, saying it was his idea, but that I had backed him up.


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