“Then at ten, she will sail.”
“Likely enough, is that. Our talk is now ended. Let it be, as if it had not been.”
“I have forgotten it.”
Vedder laughed, and added: “Go then to thy bed, I am tired.”
“Not tired of Sunna?”
“Well then, yes, of thee I have had enough at present.”
She went away as he spoke, and then he was worried. “Now I am unhappy!” he ejaculated. 118 “What provokers to the wrong way are women! Her mother was like her––my beloved Adriana!” And his old eyes filled with sorrowful tears as he recalled the daughter he had lost in the first days of her motherhood. Very soon Sunna and Adriana became one and he was fast asleep in his chair.
In the morning Sunna kept her intention. She poured out her grandfather’s coffee, and talked of everything but the thing in her heart and purpose. After breakfast she said: “I shall put the day past with Thora Ragnor. Thy dinner will be served for thee by Elga.”
“Talking thou wilt be–––”
“Of nothing that ought to be kept quiet. Do not come for me if I am late; I intend that Boris shall bring me home.”