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But I at least don't know mine." Miss Hjelm made no answer to this, and there was a little pause. "I would," continued the counsellor, somewhat puzzled, "take the great liberty to propose that you should ride with me." "I have already told the Counsellor that I did not intend to go to town to-day," answered Miss Hjelm, coldly.
"But you have heard about Emmy Ibsen's marriage?" asked Miss Brandt. "Yes, it was about a month ago, I think." "Yes, I was bridesmaid." "Indeed!" said Miss Hjelm, in a voice which atoned for her brevity. "The party was at the shooting-ground." "So!" said Miss Hjelm again, with as correct an intonation as if she had learned it for "I don't care."
"Oh!" said Miss Hjelm, laughing: "I have only known one war counsellor, and he was old; so I thought of all war counsellors as old." "Yes; but Counsellor Bagger is not war counsellor, but a real Superior Court Counsellor." "Oh, how earnest that is! And so he is in love with a fairy?" "Yes: it is ridiculous!" said Miss Brandt, laughing.
Lund's!" exclaimed Miss Hjelm. "Is it not you, then, who have written me that " "I have never written to you!" cried Ingeborg, and almost tore away the hand which Bagger tried to hold. "For God's sake, don't go, Miss ! My dear madam, you must forgive me: you shall know all!"
She only now and then cast a stealthy look at him, for it had not escaped her, nor the others, that he was in expectancy and excitement. When the clock struck twelve, he was just alone with her, he asked suddenly, in a quick, trembling voice: "Miss Hjelm, you know I am Superior Court Counsellor?" "No: that I did not know," she said almost with dread, and arose. "No: that I have never known!"
This amiable young lady's acquaintance I made last summer when we were in the country, and at last she is so good as to keep her promise and visit me. Counsellor Bagger Miss Hjelm." The Counsellor wasn't sure that it was She, but he was convinced that it ought to be.
Miss Hjelm uttered a doubting, "Um!" "Yes, that they really are! Have you ever seen any lady as coquettish as an actor?" "I don't know any of them, but I should suppose an actress might be." "No: no actress I have ever met of the better sort was really coquettish. I don't know how it is with them, but I believe they have overcome coquettishness."
A speaker's physiognomy is often more intelligible than his words; and as Miss Hjelm saw the both hearty and spirited or jovial expression in the counsellor's face, she had not that inclination, which she under other circumstances would have had, quickly to break off the conversation and go away.
At last Miss Brandt came also, accompanied by her sister. As she opened the door, and saw Bagger by the side of Miss Hjelm, she gave a little, a very little, cry, or, more properly, gasped aloud for breath, and made a movement, as if something kept her back. "Oh! my dress caught," she said, arranged it a little, and then approached Mrs. Canuteson, with smiling face, to offer her congratulation.
Meeting the look from these eyes, Bagger could no longer continue the inquisition which he had carried on for the sake of involving Miss Hjelm in self-contradiction and bringing her to confession. He himself came to confession, and exclaimed: "Miss Ingeborg, I ask you for Heaven's sake have pity on me, and tell me if you expect me at two o'clock to-day at Mrs. Lund's!" "I expect you at Mrs.
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