The things we do!

"But you'll stay here till
tomorrow, surely?"
"No, thanks all the same. I've got to be in town tomorrow."
Fruen thinks for a bit and then says:
"Elisabeth's in town. You might take a parcel in for her--something she's
forgotten."
That gives me the address! I thought to myself.
"But I've got to get it ready first."
"Then Froken Elisabeth might be gone again before I got there?"
"Oh no, she's with Fru Falkenberg, and they're staying in town for the
week."
This was grand news, joyous news. Now I had both the address and the time.

Fruen stands watching me sideways, and says:
"Well, then, you'll stay the night, won't you? You see, it's something
I've got to get ready first...."
I was given a room in the main building, because it was too cold to sleep
in the barn. And when all the household had gone to rest that night, and
everything was quiet, came Fruen to my room with the parcel, and said:
"Excuse my coming so late. But I thought you might be going early
to-morrow morning before I was up.


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