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Updated: June 29, 2025
It had seemed as if she saw him then for the first time.... Oh, would that she never had asked him for this money! Perhaps he might forgive her if she brought it back. Would she bother him very much if she stopped at his office a moment? She would not stay long.... Mrs. Hanka dried her eyes beneath her veil and walked on. When at last she stood outside Tidemand's office she hesitated.
"Nothing has taken place between us," he said coldly. "Then, Hanka, run across to the new house and look in the apiary. Please excuse her, gentlemen, she is such a child still, and follows her own whims. She is probably chasing a butterfly. Take some more wine, Mr. Sztolarik."
If you would like to have dinner with us I don't know what they are going to give us to eat, but if you will take things as they are?" She looked at him shyly, like a young girl; she said: "Thank you." After dinner, when they had returned to the drawing-room, Hanka said suddenly: "Andreas, you mustn't think I came here to-day thinking that everything could be well again with us. Don't think that.
The place to which we were to retire and take up a new position had been already decided a line just below Spascoe, with Lake Hanka on the left and a line of forest-covered mountains on the right. We arrived at Nikolsk in the early morning, but the platform was crowded with inhabitants and two guards of honour, Czech and Cossack, with band, which mistook "Rule Britannia" for the National Anthem.
Do you understand now why I am often seen in restaurants? I am not wanted; I keep to my office and go to the Grand, I meet friends of whom she is one, we sit at a table and have a good time. What should I do at home? Hanka is more likely to be at the Grand; we sit at the same table, perhaps opposite each other; we hand each other a glass, a carafe.
"Oh, nothing," he says quickly. He turns the subject, looks down, and continues: "Business is booming; I have given Furst orders to buy!" Fool that he was! There he had once more made a mistake and bothered his wife with his shop talk. But Mrs. Hanka was good enough to overlook it; nobody could have answered more patiently and sweetly than did she: "I am very glad to hear it!"
But Paulsberg made up his mind to leave now. "I'll come and sit for you to-morrow," he said to Milde, with a glance at the easel. He got up, emptied his glass, and found his overcoat. His wife pressed everybody's hand vigorously. They met Mrs. Hanka and Irgens in the door.
Never had he produced anything so remarkable; it was only a couple of pages, but.... "No," said Mrs. Hanka, "you must surely have left it behind." And she did her best to make the poor poet forget his groundless fears. She had been told that he preferred the city to the country? He did, most assuredly.
He looked at her. He knew it only too well there was nothing he could reproach her with; she had been more than good to him. However, all he could promise was that he would come if at all possible. Mrs. Hanka had left. Irgens was ready to go out; he put his proof-sheets in his pocket and took his hat. Had he forgotten anything?
But Ole Henriksen declared that he was going home; he was thinking of Tidemand, who was in need of rest and quiet. They parted outside Tidemand's house. Mrs. Hanka asked abruptly, before even the door was opened: "Will you please let me have a hundred or so?" "A hundred? Hm. Certainly. But you will have to come with me to the office; I haven't got the money here."
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