"Ho!" said Isak.
"But you'd better get those title-deeds entered in the register as soon as ever you can."
"Ay."
"Then the State can't come any nonsense about it after, you understand."
Isak understood. "'Tis worst about Inger," he said.
"Ay," said Geissler, and remained thoughtful longer than was usual with him. "Might get the case brought up again. Set out the whole thing properly; very likely get the sentence reduced a bit. Or we could put in an application for a pardon, and that would probably come to the same thing in the end."
"Why, if as that could be done…."
"But it wouldn't do to try for a pardon at once. Have to wait a bit. What was I going to say … you've been taking things down to my wife—meat and cheese and things—what?"
"Why, as to that, Lensmand paid for all that before."
"Did I, though?"