"Because you have so many children," said I.
Just then the clock struck six clear strokes, and Oleana began to cry.
"I never knew there were such kind people in the world," said Oleana, as she stood with folded hands, looking up at the clock through her tears. "Never, never!"
She didn't know how she got home, she told us later, only she had felt as if she were walking on air, she was so happy.
"And I didn't know enough to thank any one either. I was as if I had clean gone out of my wits!"
The first few nights that the clock hung on the wall at Henrik-hut, Oleana did not have much sleep, for every time the clock struck, she awoke and called down blessings on all the guests at Goodfields.
"Everything goes by the clock with us now," said Oleana. "It's nothing at all to do the work at Henrik-hut when you have a clock."
"Oleana," said I, "we wanted to give you a clock."—Page 183.