And where would they be now?
'Twas their affair.
I sauntered home again, yawning and shivering a little in the cool night,
and went up to my room. After a while Ragnhild came up, and begged me to
keep awake and be ready to help in case of need. It was horrible, she
said; they were carrying on like mad things up at the house, walking about
from one room to another, half undressed and drunk as well. Was Fruen
drunk, too? Yes, she was. And was she walking about half undressed? No,
but Captain Bror was, and Fruen clapped her hands and cried "Bravo!" And
the engineer as well. It was one as bad as the other. And Ragnhild had
just taken in two more bottles of wine, though they were drunk already.
"Come over with me and you can hear them yourself," said Ragnhild.
"They're up in Fruen's room now."
"No," I said. "I'm going to bed. And you'd better go, too."
"But they'll ring in a minute and be wanting something if I do."
"Let them ring!"
And then it was Ragnhild confessed that the Captain himself had asked her
to stay up that night in case Fruen should want her.
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