She went up
into the passage and listened. She could hear Fruen and the engineer
talking easily and without restraint; stooping down to the keyhole, she
saw her mistress loosening her hair, with the engineer looking on and
saying how lovely she was. And then--ah, that engineer--he kissed her.
"On the lips, was it?..."
Ragnhild saw I was greatly excited, and tried to reassure me.
"Well, perhaps not quite. I won't be sure; but still ... and he's not a
pretty mouth, anyway, to my mind.... I say, though, you've shaved all
clean this evening. How nice! Let me see...."
"But what did Fruen say to that? Did she slip away?"
"Yes, I think so; yes, of course she did--and screamed."
"Did she, though?"
"Yes; out loud. And he said '_Sh_!' And every time she raised her
voice he said '_Sh_!' again. But Fruen said let them hear, it didn't
matter; they were sitting down there making love in the shrubbery
themselves. That's what she said, and it was the Captain and Elisabet from
the vicarage she meant.
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