“Never. I kept my promise.”
“But it must have been very nasty.”
“Well, I bathed now and then.”
“But it must have been very cold.”
“I am warm enough now.”
“But did you never comb your hair, neither?”
“Well, I won’t say that. Travellers find strange bed-fellows. But I had half a mind never to do it at all, just to spite you.”
“And what matter would it have been to me?”
“O, none. It is only a Danish fashion we have of keeping clean.”
“Clean! You were dirty enough when you came home. How silly you were! If you had sent me but one word!”