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trouble has gone over many of them, and now they
could not endure the disgrace any longer of having
ruined Ekeby. I know well that you cavaliers have
always been ashamed to work, but the others have
taken the disgrace upon themselves. And more than
that, Gösta, they intend sending Anna Lisa to the
Major’s wife to bring her home again. But you—what
are you doing, Gösta?”
He still found wherewith to answer her. “What
do you expect of me, of a discharged clergyman—an
outcast from men and despised of God?”
“I went to Bro church to-day, Gösta, and I have
a greeting for you from two women. ‘Tell Gösta,’
said Marienne Sinclaire, ‘that a woman does not
wish to feel ashamed of the man she has loved.’
‘Tell Gösta,’ said Anna Stjärnhök, ‘that all is well
with me now; I manage my estates myself, and
people say of me that I shall be a second Lady of
Ekeby. I think no more of love, only of work. But
we all grieve över Gösta. We believe in him and
pray to God for him; but when—when will he be
a man?’
“See, then, are you an outcast from men?”
continued the Countess. “You have won too much
love, Gösta; that has been your misfortune. Both
men and women have loved you. If you laughed
and jested, if you but sang and played for them,
they forgave you everything. What it has pleased
you to do has satisfied them. And you dare call
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