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themselves. Don’t you see that it will make her very lonely, always
being the strongest? She is lonely now, and if she marries that
fellow she will never be anything else. We all talk to her about
ourselves, and she has nobody she could talk to in the same way.
She ought to have a husband she could look up to, whose
authority she should feel, one to whom she could say: This is how
I have lived and worked and fought, for I thought it right, and
who could judge if it was right? Gram cannot, because he is
her inferior. How can she know if she has been in the right,
when she has nobody with authority to confirm it? Jenny
should ask, ‘Is it not?’ and ‘Don’t you think?’ — not he.”
They sat both quiet a while, then Heggen said:
“It is rather curious, Cesca, that when it is a question of
your own affairs you cannot make head or tail of it, but when
it concerns somebody else, I think you often can see clearer than
any of us.”
“Perhaps. That is why I think sometimes I ought to go
into a convent. When I am outside a trouble I seem to
understand it all, but when I am mixed up in it myself I can’t see
a thing.”
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