added the following words to the few lines which he gave the
coachman before his passage over the Little Belt:--

"Wilhelm, in future we will say thou to each other; that is more
confidential!" "He is the first to whom I have given my thou," said
Otto, when the letter was dispatched. "This will rejoice him: now,
however, I myself have for once made an advance, but he deserves
it."

A few moments later it troubled him. "I am a fool like the rest!"
said he, and wished he could annihilate the paper. He was summoned
on board. The Little Belt is only a river between the two
countries; he soon found himself upon Jutland ground; the whip
cracked, the wheels turned round, like the wheels of fortune, up
and down, yet ever onward.

Late in the evening he arrived at an inn. From his solitary chamber
his thoughts flew in opposite directions; now toward the solitary
country-seat of his grandfather, among the sand-hills; now toward
the animated mansion in Funen, where the new friends resided. He
had opened his box and taken out what lay quite at the top, the
garland of oak-leaves and the beautiful bouquet of flowers of this
morning.

Most people maintain that one dreams at night of that which one has
thought much about. According to this, Otto must have thought a
deal about the North Sea, for of it he dreamed the whole night,--
not of the young ladies.