The things we do!

Fru Falkenberg stood out in the courtyard. Her bright figure stood like a
pillar, stood there free and erect in the open courtyard, and her head was
bare.
I greeted her Godmorgen.
"_Godmorgen_!" she answered again, and came striding towards me. Then
very quietly she asked: "I wanted to see how they put you up last night,
only I couldn't get away. That is, of course, I got away, but ... you
weren't in the barn, were you?"
The last words came to me as if in a dream, and I did not answer.
"Well, why don't you answer?"
"Yes ... in the barn? Yes."
"Were you? And was it quite all right?"
"Yes."
"Oh, well, then ... yes--yes. We shall be going back sometime to-day."
She turned and walked away, her face all in one great flush....
* * * * *
Harald came and asked me to make a kite.
"A kite?" I answered all confusedly. "Ay, I'll make you a kite, a huge
one, that'll go right up to the clouds. That I will."
We worked at it for a couple of hours, Harald and I.


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