Then they said nothing for quite a while. 'What are you going to do
now?' asks the Captain. 'Oh, don't trouble yourself about me,' said Fruen
very slowly. 'I can be a nurse, if you like, or cut my hair short and be a
school teacher, if you like.' 'If I like,' says he; 'no, decide for
yourself.' 'I want to know what you are going to do first,' she says, 'I'm
going to stay here where I am,' he answered, 'but you've turned yourself
out of doors.' And Fruen nodded and said: 'Very well.'"
"Oh," from all in the kitchen. "Oh but, _Herregud_! it will come
right again surely," said Nils, looking round at the rest of us to see
what we thought.
For a couple of days after the Captain had gone, Fruen sat playing the
piano all the time. On the third day Nils drove her to the station; she
was going to stay with her mother at Kristianssand. That left us more
alone than ever. Fruen had not taken any of her things with her; perhaps
she felt they were not really hers; perhaps they had all come from him
originally, and she did not care to have them now.
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