She had been
asking him all the way, he said, about Engineer Lassen; she must have gone
off to him after all. And, surely, she'd be well enough with him, a man
with any amount of money and grand style and all.
Then came another card for Fruen from the Captain, this time only to say
would she please send Nils to meet him at the station on Friday, and be
sure to bring his fur coat. The post card had been delayed--it was
Thursday already. And this time it was fortunate, really, that Ragnhild
happened to look at the post card and see what it said.
We stayed sitting in Nils's room, talking about the Captain--what he would
say when he got back, and what we should say, or if we ought to say
anything at all. All three of the maids were present at this council.
Fruen would have had plenty of time to get to Kristiania herself by the
day the Captain had written his card; she had not, it seemed--she had gone
somewhere else. It was more than pitiful altogether.
Said Nils:
"Didn't she leave a note or anything when she went?"
But no, there was nothing.
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