that? Who? Her husband?

A man should take his wife to Iceland with him. Or risk the consequences
of her being left behind for endless days.




XVI


Miss Torsen no longer talks about leaving. Not that she looks very happy
about staying, either; but Miss Torsen is altogether too restless and
strange to be contented with anything.

Naturally she caught cold after that evening in the woods with Solem, and
stayed in bed with a headache next day; when she got up again, she was
quite all right.

Was she? Why was her throat so blue under the chin, as though someone had
seized her by it?

She never went near Solem any more, and behaved as though he were
nonexistent. Apparently there had been a struggle in the woods that had
made her blue under the chin, and they were friends no longer! It was like
her to want nothing real, nothing but the sensation, nothing but the
triumph. Solem had not understood that, and had flown into a passion. Had
it been thus?

Yes, there was no doubt that Solem had been cheated. He was more direct