"No."
Then Tuft, throwing out his right hand: "Now you, too, are ruled by dogmas," turned his back on him and went off again. His broad hat over his broad shoulders had the effect of broadly accentuating his last words.
Shortly after eleven the bell rang again, just in the same way. Kallem came out at once, he had evidently not been in bed yet.
It was Tuft who was there again; but as far as Kallem could see, without being near him, he appeared like another man, horrified and harrowed.
"Where do you think she can have gone to, Edward?"
"I think she must have gone to Ragni's grave."
A choking sob, a visible welling-up of grief, and he turned and went away. His heavy footfall was heard far off through the stillness of the grove.
Toward one o'clock there was again a ring at the door, but this time it was only one single timid peal. Kallem heard it directly and came out from the room--he was still sitting up.
A woman stood there. Kallem, who was shortsighted, hurried up to her, but the voice proved to be Sissel Aune's. "Dear, kind doctor, be good and merciful!" Kallem thought she had come on his sister's behalf, and that something had happened; he shivered. But Sissel continued: "None but you can manage him; he gets quite mad every blessed night."
"Do you mean Anne?" shouted Kallem.