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"The water-pipes are doing nicely," said Froken Elisabeth. I was pleased to hear it. "Water-pipes?" said Fruen inquiringly. "He laid on a water-supply to the house for us. Pipes in the kitchen and upstairs as well. Just turn a tap and there it is. You ought to have it done here." "Really, though? Could it be done here, do you think?" I answered: yes; it ought to be easy enough.
'What you can see in that young puppy, I don't know though he did help me once out of a fix. Fruen looked at him then, and said: 'Helped you? 'Yes, said the Captain; 'backed a bill for me once. And Fruen asked: 'I didn't know that. Then the Captain: 'Didn't he tell you that? Fruen shook her head. 'Well, what then? he said again.
'Light a candle and pick up all this host of buttons I've upset, she said. And then she called out to the Captain in his room. I lit the candle and began picking up buttons; dozens of them there were, all sorts. The Captain came in. 'I only wanted to tell you, says Fruen at once, 'that it was kind of you to send Ragnhild after me to-day.
"We're both a little thoughtless in that respect," he answered carelessly, looking round at the walls. I took the lock and stepped outside. "Here, don't go running away now!" cried the Captain. "I'm in a hurry!" "Yes, you're in a hurry, of course," repeated Fruen. "Going away again. But you'd do well to think it over just for once.
He had talked out loud so cheerfully at the station that first day; now he could be obstinately silent when he did go so far as to take Fruen for a walk down to the bridge. I could see well enough how they stood looking each their separate ways. Lord God in heaven, but love is a fleeting thing! All went well enough at first.
'Would it have made any difference if he had? 'Yes, said Fruen at first, and then, 'No. 'Are you fond of him? he asked. And she turned on him at once. 'Are you fond of Elisabet? 'Yes, answered the Captain; but he sat smiling after that. 'Well and good, said Fruen sharply. Then there was a long silence.
I knew well enough, and I was ever so sorry to have said it. 'That's just the point, said the Captain. 'Were you really sorry? 'Yes, indeed, said Fruen; 'it hurt me ever so. 'Well, I shouldn't have thought it; you don't seem very upset about it. 'Ah, but what about you?
Anyhow, Cook was there in case. "But, only think of it, how dreadful! I don't suppose Fruen can sleep." "You'd better go and see if there's anything you can do." "Yes," said Ragnhild, getting up. "But I side with the Captain after all, and no mistake, whatever you say. Yes, that I do." "It's none so easy to know what's right."
Gone down, grown poorer year by year, no doubt, drunken guests doing their share to help, and idleness and indifference and childlessness for the rest. In the evening, Ragnhild came to me and told me she was given notice; Fruen had made some reference to me, and that was all. Once more a piece of underhand work. Fruen knew well I should not be long on the place; why not make me the scapegoat?
But when I had dressed, I felt myself that my working clothes were better suited to me now; I took off my best things again, and hid them carefully in my bag. But, as it happened, it was not Frokenen at all who received me on that Sunday afternoon, but Fruen. She talked to me for quite a while, and she had spread a little white cloth under my cup.
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