"Will you have something to eat?" asked she.
"I dined on the steamer."
"But to drink?"
She went out after a bottle of beer, and placed it with a glass on the table beside him. He poured out the beer and drank, looking across the street as he did so.
"That's a deuce of a woman! Is that the lady?"
Magnhild grew fiery red; for she too saw Fru Bang standing at the window, staring at the half-disrobed Skarlie.
She fled into her chamber, thence into the garden, and there seated herself.
She had only been there a few minutes when she heard first the chamber, then the kitchen door open, and finally the garden door was opened by her husband.
"Magnhild!" he called. "Yes, there she is."
Little Magda's light curly head was now thrust out, and turned round on every side until Magnhild was seen, and then the child came slowly toward her. Skarlie had gone back into the house.