"You mustn't cross the field again without letting me know. I was right there in my room, writing. The idea of Josephine carrying luggage!"
Paul strode on. But even yet he felt he had not appeared important enough, so he turned round and asked:
"Why didn't you take one of my cotters with you to act as porter?"
"They wouldn't go," Solem replied. "They were busy lifting potatoes."
"Wouldn't go?"
"That's what Einar said."
Paul thought this over.
"What insolence! They'd better not go too far or I'll drive them off the place."
Then the law awoke in the lawyer's bosom, and he asked:
"Haven't they bought their land?"