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"Oh but, Herregud! it will come right again surely," said Nils, looking round at the rest of us to see what we thought. For a couple of days after the Captain had gone, Fruen sat playing the piano all the time. On the third day Nils drove her to the station; she was going to stay with her mother at Kristianssand. That left us more alone than ever.
A whole bundle of letters there were, to different people, and hers in the middle. It was addressed care of her mother in Kristianssand. When I came back in the evening and took in the incoming post, the Captain's first words were: "You posted the letters all right?" "Yes," I said. Time went on.
Her mother came a pale, quiet lady with spectacles and a face like a mouse. She did not stay long only a few days; then she went back to Kristianssand that was where she lived. The air here did not agree with her, she said. Ah, that great scene! A bitter final reckoning that lasted over an hour Ragnhild told us all about it afterwards.
I worked away, harder than ever, but as a man in his sleep, without interest or pleasure. Would the Captain never come? Three days later he came quietly and alone. The body had been sent to Kristianssand; he had only come back to fetch some clothes, then he was going on there himself, to the funeral. He was home this time for an hour at most, then off again to catch the early train.
"I thought perhaps she might have been going up to her own people at Kristianssand." "Why, that might be," says Grindhusen, thinking this a better way. "Lord, yes, that would be it, of course Just for a visit, like. Well, well, she'll be home again soon, for sure." "Did she tell you so?" "Why, 'twas so I made out. And the Captain's not home himself yet, anyway.
He did not seem dejected, and as for looking thin, that was perhaps because he had got Nils to cut his hair. Then I was sent up to the post again, and this time there was a letter. Fruen's hand, and postmarked Kristianssand. I hurried back, laid the letter in among the rest of the post, and handed the whole bundle to the Captain outside the house.
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