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Axel said, "Yes"; he was glad it had come out all right in the end. The Lensmand himself put in a word, and said: "This is the second of these cases I've had while I've been here first with Inger from Sellanraa, and now this. No, it's no good trying to countenance that sort of thing justice must take its course."
His father comes back from the smith's after settling his business there; Jensine was to go back with him next morning. And Jensine, look you, had been nowise contrary and hard to persuade, but saw at once they wanted help at Sellanraa for the summer, and was ready to come. A proper way to do, again. While his father is talking, Eleseus sits thinking of his own affairs.
Snowed up at Sellanraa in the storm of the day before, and then on again to Maaneland; not a soul on the place; fed the cattle, stood in the doorway listening, milked the cows at milking-time, listening again; what could it be?...
Inger came back in a state of dull resignation; they had not found it necessary to keep her in confinement meantime. Two months passed; then one evening, when Isak came back from fishing, the Lensmand and his new assistant had been to Sellanraa. Inger was cheerful, and welcomed her husband kindly, praising his catch, though it was little he had brought home.
As, for instance, when he had first come back to Sellanraa a couple of weeks ago, he had brought with him his light spring overcoat, though it was midsummer; and when he hung it up on a nail, he might just as well have turned it so as to show the silver plate inside with his initials, but he didn't. And the same with his stick his walking-stick.
Sivert from Sellanraa came clattering up homeward, empty as usual, and the foreman called to him: "Hi, what are you coming up empty for? Why didn't you bring up a load for us here?" "Why, I might have," said Sivert. "But I'd no knowledge of it." "He's from Sellanraa; they've two horses there," some one whispered. "What's that? You've got two horses?" says the foreman.
It's my travelling trunk, that I brought home with me I've that full of food." "And what'll be in it of sorts?" "What sorts? I've meat and pork in plenty, and bread and butter and cheese besides." "Ay, you've no lack up at Sellanraa," said the other; and her poor, sallow-faced children listened with eyes and ears to this talk of rich things to eat.
Coming down the road that day Isak noticed other clearings; two of them were lower down, nearer the village, but there was one far up above, between Breidablik and Sellanraa ay, men were beginning to work on the land now; in the old days when Isak first came up, it had lain waste all of it.
They knew he would be coming, they might have waited that bit of a while for him so they would have done at Sellanraa, but not here, it seemed. "Nay, 'tis not what you're used to, I dare say," says the smith's wife. And, "What news from church?" says the smith, for all he had been at church himself.
Left two girls from the village, and a comrade, just to come. Gustaf knew what he was at, no doubt; he took Inger's hand with more warmth, more pressure than was needed, and thanked her for the last pleasant evening at Sellanraa, but he was careful not to plague her with attention. "Well, Gustaf, and when are you coming to help us with the building?" says Inger, going red.
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