The things we do!

There would hardly be work for me on so small a
place; but now that I was rich, it was not work I sought for first of all.
Petter would be coming home soon, no doubt, and perhaps have some news to
tell.
I managed so as to reach the farm in the evening. I said I brought news of
their son, that he was much better now, and would soon be home again. And
could they put me up for the night?


XXVII

I have been staying here a couple of days; Petter has come home, but had
nothing to tell.
"Is all well at Ovrebo?"
"Ay, there's nothing wrong that I know of."
"Did you see them all before you left? The Captain, Fruen?"
"Yes."
"Nobody ill?"
"No. Why, who should there be?"
"Well, Falkenberg said something about he'd hurt his hand. But I suppose
it's all right now, then."
There was little comfort in this home, though they seemed to be quite well
off. Petter's father was deputy to the Storting, and had taken to sitting
reading the papers of an evening. Eh, reading and reading--the whole house
suffered under it, and the daughters were bored to death.


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