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The cab stopped at the house where they lived. There was
light still in the dairy on the ground floor; the woman came out
on the doorstep, when she heard the cab, and said: “Good
evening; welcome back,” to Jenny. Ingeborg came rushing
down the stairs to embrace her, and hurried up again, carrying
her sister’s bag. Supper was laid in the sitting-room, and
Jenny saw her napkin with her father’s silver ring in her old
place beside Kalfatrus. Ingeborg hurried into the kitchen, and
Bodil went with Jenny to her old room at the back, which had
been Ingeborg’s during her absence, and still harboured some
of her belongings. On the walls were some picture cards of
actors; Napoleon and Madame Récamier in mahogany frames
hung on either side of Jenny’s old empire mirror above the
antique chest of drawers.
Jenny washed and did her hair; she felt an irritation in her
skin from the journey, and passed the powder-puff a couple of
times over her face. Bodil sniffed the powder to see if it was
scented. They went to supper. Ingeborg had a nice hot meal
ready; she had been to a cookery school that winter. In the
light of the lamp Jenny saw that her young sisters had their
thick curly hair tied up with silk bows. Ingeborg’s small, dark
face was thinner, but she did not cough any longer. She saw,
too, that mamma had grown older — or had she perhaps not
noticed, when she was at home and saw her every day, that
the small wrinkles in her mother’s pretty face increased, that
the tall, girlish figure stooped a little, and that the shoulders
lost their roundness? Since she grew up she had always been
told that her mother looked like an elder and prettier sister of
hers.
They spoke about everything that had happened at home
during the year.
“Why didn’t we take a taxi?” said Nils suddenly. “How
stupid of us to ride home in an old four-wheeler!”
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