The things we do!

..."
"Ah, but what about me!" cries the Captain. "I tell you, Frue, if I'd only
met you twenty years ago, I wouldn't have answered for my reason. Come;
there's no dew to speak of up in the wood."
"We'd better go indoors, I think," she suggests.
"Go in? There's not a corner anywhere indoors where we can be alone."
"Oh, we'll find somewhere!" she says.
"Well, anyhow, we must have an end of it to-night," says the Captain
decisively.
And they go.
I asked myself: was it to warn anybody I had thrown that empty bottle?
* * * * *
At three in the morning I heard Nils go out to feed the horses. At four he
knocked to rouse me out of bed. I did not grudge him the honour of being
first up, though I could have called him earlier myself, any hour of that
night indeed, for I had not slept. 'Tis easy enough to go without sleep a
night or two in this light, fine air; it does not make for drowsiness.
Nils sets out for the fields, driving a new team.


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