“A good many people. And especially the unknown who came to the ball; he whose face and whose threat—”
“That counterfeit nephew of the advocate? I can’t imagine why that fellow’s face should torment you so. It was not in the least like—”
“Be still! you never saw clearly in your life; you are near-sighted!”
“No I am not, indeed.”
“A man insolent enough to look me in the face and defy me, in my own house, before everybody!”
“You have been served so more than once before, and have always laughed at it.”
“And this time I fell, as if struck by a thunderbolt.”
“It’s that cursed anniversary. You know it makes you ill every year; and afterwards you forget all about it.”
“I don’t reproach myself for anything, Johan.”
“The devil! Did you think I was reproaching you for anything?”