Macdonald suggested several other changes, which, although small in themselves, yet in the aggregate made considerable alteration.
"Well, Frøken Helga?" said Hardy, after she had seen the plans.
"I think it will make Rosendal perfectly lovely," said Helga, warmly. "I should not have thought it possible so few simple changes could effect so much."
"The cost," said the Pastor, "cannot be much either. I heartily approve of the plans."
"We will come over and see you at Rosendal to-morrow, Macdonald, and go through the plans on the spot," said Hardy. And after Macdonald had experienced the hospitality of the Pastor, he left.
"He is a clever man," said the Pastor, referring to Macdonald.
"He is a good man," said Hardy; "but he has been educated to such work, and consequently he sees things that did not even strike the quick intelligence of Frøken Helga Lindal."
"I have been very foolish and——" said Helga, but stopped and blushed.
"Not at all," said Hardy. "You had liked Rosendal as it is. It was very natural that you should have thought any change would be for the worse."
"Thank you, Herr Hardy," said Helga; but her voice had a softer tone. "I wish," she added, after a pause, "you would sing to us the German song you sang once to my father."