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74 BIOGRAPHY.
pleased ; was at liberty to remain in her room those days
when she did not wish to see any body; but always was
welcome at any moment when she wished to come down to
the Countess S Generally, Fredrika spent the whole
of the forenoon in her own room, reading and writing, and
canie into the drawing-room in the evening, when the day
usually closed with a game at chess, of which the Countess
was passionately fond, and of which Fredrika was now no
longer afraid. .Fredrika paid a visit of a couple of months to
Arsta in 1835, but returned in the autumn to Tomb, where
she spent the winters of 1836, 1837, 1838, and 1839, visit-
ing in the summer baths and spas, either with the Count-
ess § or with my mother and Agatha. When my
mother, in the autumn of 1841, went to Nizza with Agatha,
in the hope that the milder climate of the south might
strengthen Agatha’s weak health, Fredrika remained quite
alone at Arsta, and enjoyed then her solitude and her per-
fect freedom. In June, the following year, my mother and
Agatha returned to her from Nizza.
While, in 1844, I was using the cold-water cure at
Séderképing, I saw again the Countess S , suffering
and very sickly; she was also going to try this cure, “ in-
vented for witches,” as she called it. We were together
almost daily in the intervals between the five baths which
we each had to take every day, and Fredrika was frequently
the subject of our conversation. “Sincerely as I love
Fredrika,” the Countess said to me one day, “ still I never
liked her whim to enter the hospital at Christiana as a
nurse. Every year, when Fredrika was staying with mie,
she wanted to realize this fancy, and it never was so near
being realized as in 1835. The day had already been fixed
for our journey to Christiana, to install Fredrika in the
hospital. My arguments, aided by an expression used by
me about the hospital — calling it her Hermitage — caused
her to weigh the matter over in her mind once more. She
herself proposed immediately to postpone our journey; the
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