"Well, we don't kill a pig every day, do we?" said the Factor, and while the men laughed and winked, Margret Neilsen said:
"And how's Anna?"
Anna was speechless and ghastly white, so the Factor said, "We seem to have startled her out of her senses, for she looks as if she had seen a ghost. But where's Magnus?"
"Magnus? Oh--somewhere about," said Anna.
"And how's my precious Elin?" said Aunt Margret.
"She's not up yet," said Anna.
"Then I'll go and waken her. Which is her room--this one?" said Aunt Margret, making for the guest-room.
"No, no," said Anna, intercepting her and standing with her back to the guest-room door. "That one," and Aunt Margret went into Elin's bedroom.
"And now," said the Factor, with winks all round him, "what about the other one?"
Anna looked at the Factor in mute terror.