We were about half-way there. But never a word of starting out
again at once."
"But she must have forgotten something, surely?"
"Ragnhild says no. She was indoors, and I thought for a moment of those
photograph things, if she was going to burn them; but they're still there.
No, she didn't do a single thing while she was back."
We walked across the courtyard together.
"No," Nils went on, "Fruen's in a bad way; she's lost all harmony for
everything. Where's she going off to now, do you think? Heaven knows; she
doesn't seem to be altogether sure of it herself. When we stopped to
breathe the horses, she said something about being in such a hurry, and
having to be in different places at once--and then she ought not really to
be away from home at all. 'Best for Fruen not to hurry about anything,' I
said, 'but just keep quiet.' But you know how she is nowadays; there's no
saying a word to her. She just looked at her watch and said go on again."
"Was this on the way to the station?"
"No, on the way back.
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