“Good evening, Helge,” she said, taking the hand he offered her. “Will you not sit down, please?”
She sat down on the sofa. She could hear that her voice sounded calm and as usual. But in her brain she had the same delirious sensation of dread as in the afternoon.
“I wanted to come and see you,” said Helge, sitting down on a chair close to her.
“It was good of you,” replied Jenny. Both were silent.
“You live in Bergen now,” she said. “I saw that you had got your degree. I congratulate you.”
“Thank you.”
There was another pause.
“You have been abroad a long time. I meant to write to you sometimes, but it never came off. Heggen lives in this house, I see.”
“Yes; I wrote him to get a studio for me, but they are so dear and so difficult to find. This room has a good light, though.”
“I see that you have some pictures drying.”