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Updated: June 4, 2025
All the people came back with them to Peerout Castle, Kjersti Hoel, too. Kari Svehaugen, who had not gone to the church, had covered the table with a white tablecloth, and set it with plates and good things to eat. And all the people ate and talked, but they did not talk very loudly. When the meal was over, Lisbeth got Jacob to go out into the cow house to look at Crookhorn.
Once in her room, Kjersti took a seat beside the table and asked Lisbeth to sit at the opposite side. Then said Kjersti: "You are now grown up, Lisbeth Longfrock, and hereafter you will be free to decide things for yourself. I have kept the last promise I made to your mother, and I can to-day say that it has been only a pleasure for me to do so.
When Kjersti had shown Lisbeth the sheep and the goats, she declared that she should certainly need a little girl to look after her flocks when spring came; and then Lisbeth, before she knew what she was saying, told Kjersti how she and Jacob used to look at the farms from the window at home, and how she had always chosen Hoel as the place where she should like to work when she was big enough.
Then, when the service was over, they walked out of church. Outside the church door stood Jacob and Peter. They lifted their caps to Kjersti and shook hands with her. Afterward they shook hands with Lisbeth, lifting their caps to her, too, which had not been their custom before her confirmation. They also said to her, "May it bring you happiness and blessing!"
When the time came for Lisbeth to go to bed, Kjersti went with her all the way to the little sleeping room under the hall stairs, which looked just as neat and orderly as when she had left it. And Kjersti sat on the edge of the bed and asked after every single one of the animals, she remembered them all. And Lisbeth told about everything.
I was to greet you from the milkmaid and say that you must not be frightened at seeing me, for everything is going very well with both man and beast. I have only come down to make a visit and meet Jacob, my brother." "God be praised!" said Kjersti. "And now you are heartily welcome."
"Not until the beginning of summer, after she has had her calf." "H'm," said Kjersti thoughtfully. By and by, as if to herself, she said: "I have often thought of going to see Randi, but have never done so. Before this spring is over, I must surely pay her a visit." Lisbeth Longfrock stayed a long time at Hoel that day.
All in all, she was beautiful, as she sat there in her little room waiting for church time to come. This was the day that she was to be confirmed. A knock was heard at the door, and in stepped Kjersti Hoel. She also was dressed in her very best, an old-fashioned black dress with a gathered waist, and a freshly ironed cap with a frill around the face and strings hanging down.
For a week she spun almost without ceasing, scarcely taking time for meals, but drinking a good deal of strong black coffee. Not until very late one evening was Kjersti Hoel's wool all spun and ready. By that time Randi was far from well.
And then Kjersti praised her two servants for their faithfulness and industry, and the trio rejoiced together over the success of the summer.
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