' 'And they didn't?' 'Well,
no!' 'But what was in your mind when you wrote? Were you thinking of me?
Did you want me again? I can't make out what was in your mind.'
'Ragnhild's finished, I see,' said the Captain. 'Good-night, Ragnhild!'"
"And then you came away?"
"Yes, but I dare not go far because of Fruen. You may be sure it wasn't
nice for her when I was out of the room, so I had to be somewhere at hand.
And if the Captain had come and found me and said anything, I'd have told
him straight out I wasn't going farther away with Fruen in the state she
was. As it happened, he didn't come at all, but they began again in there.
'I know what you're thinking of,' said Fruen--'that perhaps it's not ...
it wouldn't be your child. Oh yes, indeed it might be so! But, God knows,
I can't find words this moment to make you forgive me!' she said, all
crying. 'Oh, my dear, forgive me, forgive me!' said Fruen, and went down
on her knees on the floor. 'You've seen what I did with the books, and
that handkerchief with the initials on--I burnt that before, and the
books, you know.
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