Ørlygur looked at him without a word.
“Besides, you’d be company for me on the way home. I don’t feel like wandering about alone in this fog.”
Ørlygur set off at once after two more horses, and tied up the three in readiness. Then the two men went indoors, and Ørlygur ordered coffee.
After a while Ormarr came in.
“What brings you here, doctor?” he asked.
Jon Hallsson made no reply, but glanced at Ørlygur. Ormarr followed his glance.
“And where have you been, Ørlygur?” he asked, noticing the boy’s hands and clothing.
“I’d better go and change, I think,” said Ørlygur awkwardly—“I’ve been up Borgarfjall,” he added. “Up to the top.” And he rose to his feet.
Ormarr looked from one to the other in astonishment.
“Up Borgarfjall! And you, too, doctor?”