The things we do!

Then I talked those two young
people well together, which done, I suddenly remembered I had some
business to do, and must go off at once. "I'm ever so sorry to leave just
now. Froken Elisabeth, I'm afraid you've turned my head, bewitched me
completely; but I realize it's hopeless to think of it. It's a marvel to
me, by the way...."


XXXIV

I shambled over to Raadhusgaten, and stood awhile by the cab stand,
watching the entrance to the Victoria. But, of course, she had gone to see
some friends. I drifted into the hotel, and got talking to the porter.
Yes, Fruen was in. Room No. 12, first floor.
Then she was not out visiting friends?
No.
Was she leaving shortly?
Fruen had not said so.
I went out into the street again, and the cabmen flung up their aprons,
inviting my patronage. I picked out a cab and got in.
"Where to?"
"Just stay where you are. I'm hiring you by the hour."
The cabmen walk about whispering, one suggesting this, another that: he's
watching the place; out to catch his wife meeting some commercial
traveller.


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