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That's not Fru Falkenberg, surely? Is she married to him the Captain, I mean?" "Why, yes, Grindhusen, the Captain's wife is married to the Captain. What makes you ask?" "But it's that cousin girl! I'll stake my life on it if it's not the very same one. The Inspector's cousin that was there." "Not a bit of it, Grindhusen. But it might be her sister." "But I'll stake my life on it.
"You know I told you that I never see my brothers very long at one time," Karen said to Gerda, after the children had been greeted and gladly welcomed by Fru Ekman, and they had all tried to make the strangers feel at home among them. "Yes," said Gerda; "but when you next see Josef you may be so well and strong that you can go off to the lumber camp with him and help him saw down the trees."
If any one had peeped behind a rose-bush and caught them kissing one another, a thing they had never done, they could not have blushed more. The next day Fru Kaas found new rooms, a long way from the quay near which they were living.
"But," said Fru Heyerdahl, "if this is the terrible fate that is meted out to the guilty or, let us say, the more clearly guilty unmarried mother who has killed her child, what of the innocent one who is merely suspected of the crime, and has not committed it? What reparation does society offer to her? None at all!
And true it is that I went about spying and listening everywhere for anything I could learn of Fru Falkenberg; and then at times, ay, many a night, I would call myself to account for that same thing, and torture myself with self-contempt. From early morning I thought of her: is she awake yet? Has she slept well? Will she be going back home to-day?
"We all have our burden, and often it is very hard to bear," rejoined Elizabeth. She understood very well what Fru Beck's words had meant, and looked at her compassionately; but she avoided answering directly to what she thought had been blurted out unintentionally, and said "You have a son. That should be a great happiness, Fru Beck, and much to live for."
Strangely enough, I felt no excitement at the thought of what was to come; nothing of unrest, no; calmly and comfortably I took my way by farmstead, wood, and meadow. I thought to myself how I had once, years ago, spent some adventurous weeks at that same Ovrebo, even to being in love with Fruen herself, with Fru Lovise. Ay, that I was.
And at the end of it all, she volunteered one or two useful items of information, and made a startling offer to the court. Leaving out all legal technicalities, what took place was this: "We women," said Fru Heyerdahl, "we are an unfortunate and oppressed moiety of humanity. It is the men who make the laws, and we women have not a word to say in the matter.
She was all irresponsible in her words, going, perhaps, further than she meant. But she was changed out of knowledge to us all, and spoiled and shameless now. Fru Falkenberg shameless! Nay, perhaps not; who could say? Yet she was not ashamed to come out in the kitchen of an evening and say nice things to Nils about how young and strong he was.
Fru Astrida said Osmond was quite right no good weapon-smith ever toiled with open doors; and when the boys asked him questions as to his work, he only smiled, and said that they would see what it was when the call to arms should come.
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