Outside, we heard the Captain telling her to go and look after her
mistress.
There was no one but took thought for Fruen in her distress.
We went out to the fields again. Said Nils to me:
"She ought to take away those photos; it's not right of her to leave them
there. I don't know what she can be thinking of to do it."
What do you know about it? I thought to myself. Oh, I was so clever with
my knowledge of the world, and all I'd learned on my wanderings, I thought
I would try him now; perhaps he was only showing off.
"I can't understand why the Captain hasn't taken and burnt them long ago,"
said I.
"No, that's all wrong," said Nils. "I wouldn't have done that either."
"Oh, indeed!"
"It wouldn't be for me to do it, but for her."
We walked on a little. And then Nils said a thing that showed his sound
and right instinct.
"Poor lady!" he said. "She's not got over that slip of hers this summer;
it's troubling her still. From all I can see, there's some people pick up
again all right after a fall, and go on through life with no more than the
mark of a bruise.
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