Next morning she goes off again. Once more she has a bundle of something with her. Isak is working in the quarry, and she goes another way round, so that he shall not see.
Two hours later, Oline comes back again, steps into the house, and asks at once: "Where is Isak?"
Inger is washing up. Oline should have passed by the quarry where Isak was at work, and the children with him; Inger at once guesses something wrong.
"Isak? What d'you want with him?"
"Want with him?—why, nothing. Only I didn't see him to say good-bye."
Silence. Oline sits down on a bench without being asked, drops down as if her legs refuse to carry her. Her manner is intended to show that something serious is the matter; she is overcome.
Inger can control herself no longer. Her face is all terror and fury as she says:
"I saw what you sent me by Os-Anders. Ay, 'twas a nice thing to send!"
"Why … what…?"
"That hare."