The things we do!

...
Some one calls me by name from down in the wood. It is Harald; he has
started a Sunday school with me. He gave me a lesson out of Pontoppidan to
learn, and now I'm to be heard. It is touching to be taught religion now
as I should have taught it myself when I was a child.


IX

The well was finished, the trench was dug, and the man had come to lay the
pipes. He chose Grindhusen to help him with the work, and I was set to
cutting a way for the pipes up from the cellar through the two floors of
the house.
Fruen came down one day when I was busy in the cellar. I called out to her
to mind the hole in the floor; but she took it very calmly.
"There's no hole there now, is there?" she asked, pointing one way. "Or
there?" But at last she missed her footing after all, and slipped down
into the hole where I was. And there we stood. It was not light there
anyway; and for her, coming straight in from the daylight outside, it must
have seemed quite dark. She felt about the edge, and said:
"Now, how am I to get up again?"
I lifted her up.


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