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"I'll bet you now," said Falkenberg, with a swagger, "that Emma'd be only too glad to be out here with us." Helene and Ronnaug and Sara were there; every time they drank, they gave their hands prettily by way of thanks, as the custom is, but some of the others that had learned a trifle of town manners said only, "Tak for Skjanken," and no more.
Helene was to be Falkenberg's girl, it seemed; he put his arm round her waist and said she was his for tonight. And when they moved off farther and farther away from the rest of us, none called to them to come back; we paired off, all of us, after a while, and went our separate ways into the woods. I went with Sara. When we came out from the wood again, there stood Ronnaug still taking the air.
Strange girl, had she been standing there alone all the time? I took her hand and talked to her a little, but she only smiled to all I said and made no answer. We went off towards the wood, and Sara called after us in the darkness: "Ronnaug, come now and let's go home." But Ronnaug made no answer; it was little she said at all. Soft, white as milk, and tall, and still.
"Where have you been?" asks Falkenberg. Now, I do not want him to know about my having taken cold the day before, and perhaps go making talk of it in the kitchen; I simply mutter something about not knowing quite where I have been. "You've been up to see Ronnaug, I bet," he said. I answered: yes, I had been with Ronnaug, since he'd guessed it. "'Twas none so hard to guess," he said.
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