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Sunlight came through the barred window behind Jimmy's bed, and brought into dazzling radiance the pink bathrobe, and Harmony's eyes, and fat Nurse Elisabet's white apron. It lay on the bedspread in great squares, outlined by the shadows of the window bars.
I did not grudge him the honour of being first up, though I could have called him earlier myself, any hour of that night indeed, for I had not slept. 'Tis easy enough to go without sleep a night or two in this light, fine air; it does not make for drowsiness. Nils sets out for the fields, driving a new team. He has looked over the visitors' horses, and chosen Elisabet's.
As we came out of the kitchen, and were going across for a rest, there was the Captain busy with Elisabet's carriage. He called me up and said: "I ought not to ask you now, when you're having your rest, but I wish you'd go down and mend the door of the summer-house for me." "Right!" I said. Now that door had been wrong ever since the engineer burst it open several nights before.
Now voices are calling again for the couple by the flagstaff; the Captain throws out an impatient "Yes!" but does not move. Now he brushes a speck of dust from Elisabet's shoulder; now, looking round carefully, he lays one hand on her arm and tells her something earnestly. Says Nils: "They've always such a lot to talk about, those two. She never comes here but they go off for long walks together."
All for nothing, indeed!" Then suddenly she takes his hand and leads him down the steps. I can hear her voice: "Why should I care? Does he imagine Elisabet's so much better?" They pass along the path to the summer-house. Here she hesitates, and stops. "Oh, where are we going?" she asks. "Haha, we must be mad! You wouldn't have thought I was mad, would you?
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