The things we do!

I had no lathe, and had to whittle
out the two rollers and several wheels and screws by hand. I was working
at this on the Sunday, and so taken up with it I never heard the
dinner-bell. The Captain came out and called, "Dinner!" Then, when he saw
what I was doing, he offered to drive over himself to the smithy the very
next day, and get the parts I needed cut on the lathe. "All you need do is
to give me the measurements," he said. "And you must want some tools,
surely? Saw and drills; right! Screws, yes, and a fine chisel ... is that
all?"
He made a note of the things on the spot. A first-rate man to work under.
But in the evening, when I had finished supper and was crossing the
courtyard to the men's room, Fruen called me. She was standing between the
kitchen windows, in the shadow, but slipped forward now.
"My husband said ... he ... said ... you can't be warm enough in these
thin clothes," she said. "And would you ... here, take these."
She bundled a whole suit into my arms.


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