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Fruen was in raptures over the weather, so fine it was, and such a warm night. Oh, it was lovely out now ever so much nicer than indoors! But her voice seemed a trifle less clear now than before. I ran to the window, and saw the pair of them standing by the steps that led down to the shrubbery. The engineer seemed to have something on his mind that he had not been able to get said before.
The door was still fastened, but I knocked, and Fruen came and opened it. But the engineer was just behind; he'd got hold of her clothes, and was simply wild after her. 'Don't go! don't go! he kept on saying, and never taking the slightest notice of me. But then, when I turned to go, Fruen came out with me. Oh, but only think. It was as near as could be!..." A long, restless night.
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.
We went down to the carriage; she got in, and I made to help her to rights with the rug she had. Then I pulled out my own from under the front seat, taking care to keep the border out of sight lest she should recognize it. "Oh, what a blessing!" cried Fruen. "Why, where was it?" "Under the seat here."
"I dare say it wasn't I oughtn't to have said what I did," Fruen began. The Captain made no answer. But his silence, after she had come down on purpose to try and make it up, was more than she could bear. She ended by saying: "Oh, well, it's all the same; I don't care." And she turned to go. "Did you want to speak to me?" asked the Captain. "Oh no, it doesn't matter. Thanks, I shan't trouble."
Another time. 'Good-night, said she." The Captain spoke to Nils about the timber; he thought of disposing of the whole lot, or selling it standing. Nils took this to mean that he didn't like the idea of having more new folk about the place. "It looks like things are as bad as ever with him and Fruen," said Nils.
As we neared a cottage a little way from the road, Fruen knocked on the carriage window to say it was dinner-time. She gets out, and her face was pale with the cold. "We'll go up there and have dinner," she says. "Come up as soon as you're ready, and bring the basket." And she walked up the hill.
If Fruen happened to be hasty, as she might now and then, and forgot to be grateful, the Captain would look down at the floor, and it would not be long before he put on his hat and went out. All the maids knew about it, and I had seen it myself once or twice. He never forgot what she had done how could he? though he could keep from speaking of it.
You'd drifted away from me, and I wanted you. Fruen sat thinking over that for a minute, then she sprang up and threw her arms around him and said: 'Oh, then you cared for me all the time! And I thought it was all over. You'd drifted away from me, too; it was years since. And it all seemed so hopeless. I never thought I never knew.... And then it was me you cared for all the time!
Oh, my dear, then it's all come right again. 'Sit down, said he. 'You seem to forget that something else has happened since. 'Something else? 'There you are, you've forgotten all about it. May I ask you, are you sorry enough for what's happened since? At that Fruen turned hard again and said: 'Oh, you mean about Hugo?
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