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It preached resignation with every deep vibration of the cello. Harmony fidgeted. "How terrible!" she whispered. "To turn their Christmas-Eve into mourning! Stop them!" "Stop a German orchestra?" "They are crying, some of them. Oh, Peter!" The music came to an end at last. Tears were dried. Followed recitations, gifts, a speech of thanks from Nurse Elisabet for the patients. Then Harmony.
What made the Captain so anxious to have it put right just at this moment? He'd have no use for the summerhouse while he was driving Elisabet home. Was it because he wanted to shut the place up so no one else should use it while he was away? It was a significant move, if so. I took some tools and things and went down to the shrubbery. And now I had my first look at the summer-house from inside.
Yes, the Captain and Elisabet might be content: the troublesome parlour-maid was to be sent packing, surely enough. But who was to know? I might be out in my reckoning after all. New happenings set me questioning anew; ay, forced me to alter my judgment once again. 'Tis a sorely difficult thing to judge the truth of humankind.
'twas a woman's wit no doubt, 'twas Elisabet had put him up to that! We were sitting at the long dining-table in the kitchen, Nils and I and the lad; Fruen was there, and the maids were busy with their own work. Then in comes the Captain from the house with a brush in his hand. "Give my coat a bit of a brush, d'you mind?" says he to Ragnhild. She obeyed.
'And it's all your own fault, really, Fruen went on, 'the way you drove off with Elisabet that time, though I came and asked you not to go. It was then it happened. And we'd been drinking that evening.
I had only to fix the lock in its place, and set a new strip down the inside of the door-frame; it was soon done. The Captain tried the door, put the key in his pocket, thanked me for the work, and went off. A little later he drove away with Elisabet. "See you again soon," he called to Captain Bror and Engineer Lassen, waving his hand to them both. "Mind that you have a good time while I'm away!"
Ragnhild was nowhere to be seen, and the other maids had gone to bed. I glanced in at the shrubbery. There sat Captain Falkenberg and Elisabet, talking together at the round stone table; they took no notice of me. There was a light in Fruen's bedroom upstairs. And suddenly it occurred to me that to-night I looked as I had done six years before, clean-shaven as then.
He fell asleep with Peter's arm under his head and the horns of the deer beside him. On the bedside stand stood the wooden sentry, keeping guard. As Peter drew his arm away he became aware of the Nurse Elisabet beckoning to him from a door at the end of the ward Peter left the sentinel on guard and tiptoed down the room.
'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.
Fruen did manage to say: "Well, anyhow we were in the house, but you two were sitting out among the bushes!" And Elisabet turned sharp at that, and snapped out: "We didn't put out the light!" "And if we did," said Fruen, "it made no difference; we came down directly after." Heavens! I thought to myself, why ever didn't she say they put the light out because they were going down?
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