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Updated: June 29, 2025
Hanka is looking forward to it; she has spoken of it a good deal. No, I would rather ask you to act as if nothing has happened; be as cheerful as you can. I really would appreciate it. Don't mention my misfortune at all, please." And Tidemand put the fatal wire back in his pocket. "I am sorry I had to come and bother you with this.
Hanka now found it unnecessary to place any restraint upon herself.... Tidemand entered the warehouse. A cool and tart smell of tropical products, of coffee and oils and wines, filled the atmosphere. Tall piles of tea-boxes, bundles of cinnamon sewn in bast, fruits, rice, spices, mountains of flour-sacks everything had its designated place, from floor to roof.
Hanka, who was said at last to have left her husband. Was anything else to be expected? Hadn't she endured it for four long years down in that shop? They asked each other for her address; they wanted to congratulate her; she must know that they fully sympathised with her. But none of them knew her address. They were deeply interested in the situation.
He began to speak; he had not quite heard the last, the very last of the discussion; how had the poets fared? Oh, there was Mrs. Hanka; so pleased to see her. But why had she arrived so late? He was finally led outside. "This means a general departure, I suppose?" asked Irgens, displeased. He had tried to approach Miss Lynum once during the evening but without success. She had plainly avoided him.
They had almost reached the Railway Square when Tidemand suddenly stared straight ahead and whispered: "But isn't that my wife there ahead of us?" "Yes; so it is," whispered Ole. "I have noticed this lady ahead of us a long while; it is only now I see who it is." Mrs. Hanka walked home alone; the Journalist had not accompanied her at all. "Thank God!" exclaimed Tidemand involuntarily.
Hanka was sitting there, but evidently she was beside herself; he had excited her by calling on her so "unexpectedly. "Don't excite yourself, Hanka. Perhaps you are saying what you do not mean." A bright, irrepressible hope flamed up within her. "Yes," she exclaimed, "I mean every word! Oh, if you could forget what I have been, Andreas? If you would only have pity on me! Take me back; be merciful!
For you love me, don't you? What is the matter? You are so strange to-day!" "I am awfully sorry, but really things are not as they used to be." He looked away sadly and searched for words. "I cannot lie to you, Hanka, and the plain truth is that I am not enraptured by you as much as I used to be. It would hardly be right to deceive you; anyway, I couldn't do it it is beyond me."
He looked at her in amazement. He noticed that her left hand was without the ring. He frowned and asked: "What has become of your ring, Hanka?" "It isn't the one you gave me," she answered quickly. "It is the other one. That doesn't matter." "I did not know you had been obliged to do that, or I would long ago " "But I was not obliged to do it; I wanted to. You see I have plenty of money.
He knocked and entered. Hanka sat at the table, eating. She rose quickly. "Oh I thought it was the maid," she stammered. Her face coloured and she glanced uneasily at the table. She began to clear away, to place napkins over the dishes. She moved the chairs and said again and again: "I did not know everything is so upset " But he asked her to excuse his abrupt entrance.
"You have great provocation, but all the same You can live without that miserable subsidy. You know that nobody is your equal!" "And what good does that do me? Judge for yourself; my book has not been mentioned in a single newspaper!" Mrs. Hanka had for the first time yes, for the very first time a feeling that her hero was not the superior being she had imagined.
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