Everything here is so neat and refined that I am sure your fastidious
soul would rejoice to see it. Here I never bring in any mud on my shoes,
as I used to do in the country, to your everlasting worry. And here the
books are arranged tidily in proper order on the shelves. You would not
be able to find a speck of dust on the furniture.
Of course the gardener from Frijsenborg, about whom I have already told
you, is now courting Torp, and I am expecting an invitation to the
wedding one of these next days. Otherwise he is very competent, and my
vegetables are beyond criticism.
Personally, I should have liked to rear chickens, but Torp is so
afflicted at the idea of poultry-fleas that she implored me not to keep
fowls. Now we get them from the schoolmaster who cannot supply us with
all we want.
I have an idea which will please you, Richard.
What if you paid me a short visit? Without committing either of us--you
understand? Just a brief, friendly meeting to refresh our pleasant and
unpleasant memories?
I am dying for somebody to speak to, and who could I ask better than
yourself?
But, just to please me, come without saying a word to anyone.
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