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driving to? You can surely understand that we never
intended to do you any harm!”
She had been nearly out of her senses with fear,
and only noticed now that they had crossed the
river, and Don Juan was drawing them up the steep
hill to Borg.
They pulled up before the steps, and allowed
the Countess to alight at her own door; but as soon
as she was surrounded by protecting servants, she
regained her courage and presence of mind.
“Take charge of the horse,” she commanded the
coachman. “These gentlemen who have driven me
home will surely come in for a few moments. The
Count will be here directly.”
“As the Countess desires,” replied Gösta, and
stepped immediately out of the sledge, and Beerencreutz,
too, threw the reins aside without a moment’s
hesitation. But the young Countess preceded them,
and showed them, with hardly concealed exultation,
into the salon.
She had probably expected they would hesitate
to accept her proposal to await her husband’s return.
Of course, they could not know what a stern and
just man he was. They did not seem to fear the
judgment he would mete out to them for having
so violently laid hold of her and compelled her to
take that drive. She wished to hear him forbid them
ever to set foot in her house again.
She wanted to see him call in the servants and
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