“They're still there,” said Ragnhild as she went out.
Outside, we heard the Captain telling her to go and look after her mistress.
There was no one but took thought for Fruen in her distress.
We went out to the fields again. Said Nils to me:
“She ought to take away those photos; it's not right of her to leave them there. I don't know what she can be thinking of to do it.”
What do you know about it? I thought to myself. Oh, I was so clever with my knowledge of the world, and all I'd learned on my wanderings, I thought I would try him now; perhaps he was only showing off.
“I can't understand why the Captain hasn't taken and burnt them long ago,” said I.
“No, that's all wrong,” said Nils. “I wouldn't have done that either.”
“Oh, indeed!”
“It wouldn't be for me to do it, but for her.”