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Isak felt himself in a mist of darkness and emptiness; heard only a word here and there of all the Lensmand said a pity such things should happen ... hoped it might be a lesson to her ... reform and be a better woman after, and not kill her children any more! Lensmand Heyerdahl had married the year before. His wife had no intention of ever being a mother no children for her, thank you!
Lensmand Heyerdahl promised Isak to do his best. "I hope to succeed in procuring you possession of the estate," he said. The big bull is to be sent away. It has grown to an enormous beast, and costs too much to feed; Isak is taking it down to the village, to bring up a suitable yearling in exchange. It was Inger's idea.
But Fru Heyerdahl guessed, no doubt, that Axel was not over pleased with her speech of the day before, and tried to smooth it over, to make up for it somehow now. "You understood, of course, why I had to say all that about you yesterday?" "H'm ye es," said Axel. "You understood, of course, I know. You didn't think I wanted to make things harder for you in any way.
Ay, folk might say what they would of Fru Lensmand Heyerdahl, but make a speech, that she could, and was learned in politics and social questions, no doubt about that. 'Twas a marvel where she found all her words. Now and again the presiding justice seemed wishful to keep her to the point, but maybe he had not the heart to interrupt, and let her run on.
De Brun du Bois-Noir speaks of the expulsion of extrauterine remains by the anus after seven years, and Heyerdahl after thirteen years. Benham mentions the discharge of a fetus by the rectum; there was a stricture of the rectum associated with syphilitic patches, necessitating the performance of colotomy. Bartholinus and Rosseus speak of fetal bones being discharged from the urinary passages.
Fru Heyerdahl came and lectured her, lent her books and a fool for her pains. Barbro had lived in Bergen and read the papers and been to the theatre! She was no innocent lamb from the countryside ... But Fru Heyerdahl must have grown suspicious at last. One day she comes up at three in the morning to the maids' room and calls: "Barbro!" "Yes," answers Cook. "It's Barbro I want. Isn't she there?
He was unmarried, having never been able to afford a wife. His chief, Amtmand Pleym, had inherited him from his predecessor, and paid him the same miserable wage that had been given before; Heyerdahl took it, and went on writing at his desk as before. Isak plucked up his courage, and went to see him. "Documents in the Sellanraa case ...? Here they are, just returned from the Department.
"I wouldn't have got more than a month or two, anyway, and done with it." Fru Heyerdahl is speechless for a moment; ay, for a little while she stands saying nothing, only opening and closing her mouth. The first thing she says is to tell the girl to go; she will have no more of her. "Just as you please," says Barbro. For some days after that Barbro had been at home with her parents.
The court had heard that morning what her mistress, Fru Heyerdahl, thought of her no one could wish for a finer recommendation. Barbro had then gone to Bergen. Here the advocate laid great stress on a most feelingly written testimonial from two young business men in whose employ Barbro had been while at Bergen evidently in a position of trust.
"You can go and see your parents now and then during the day," says her mistress. But Fru Heyerdahl was wide awake enough, and her suspicion was not gone; she waited a week, and tried at four in the morning. "Barbro!" she called. Oh, but this time 'twas Cook's turn out, and Barbro was at home; the maids' room was a nest of innocence. Her mistress had to hit on something in a hurry.
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