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in the days of her glory. There was the same flattering
hopelessness in his mien and the same humble adoration
in his eyes.
He would never remain at Kalö for more than two or
three days at a time; then he would leave for a week’s visit
in the neighborhood, and Marie learned to long for his
coming and to sigh when he went away; for he was practically
the only company she had. They became very intimate,
and there was but little they did not confide to each other.
“Madam,” said Sti one day, “is it your purpose to
return to his Excellency, if he make you full and proper
apologies?”
“Even though he were to come here crawling on his
knees,” she replied, “I would thrust him away. I have
naught but contempt and loathing for him in my heart; for
there’s not a faithful sentiment in his mind, not one
honest drop of warm blood in his body. He is a slimy, cursed
harlot and no man. He has the empty, faithless eyes of
a harlot and the soulless, clammy desire of a harlot. There
has never a warm-blooded passion carried him out of
himself; never a heartfelt word cried from his lips. I hate him,
Sti, for I feel myself besmirched by his stealthy hands and
bawdy words.”
“Then, madam, you will sue for a separation?”
Marie replied that she would, and if her father had only
stood by her, the case would have been far advanced, but
he was in no hurry, for he still thought the quarrel could be
patched up, though it never would be.
They talked of what maintenance she might look for
after the divorce, and Marie said that Erik Grubbe meant
to demand Kalö on her behalf. Sti thought this was
ill-considered. He forecast a very different lot for her than sitting
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