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Sören had untied the twine, and the door flew open. Marie
rushed into the room and threw herself on his breast,
sobbing and laughing. Sören looked embarrassed and hardly
knew how to take it.
“Oh, Heaven be praised that I have you once more!”
cried Marie. “But where were you going to do it? Tell
me!” She looked curiously around the room at the unmade
beds, where faded bolsters, matted straw, and dirty leather
sheets lay in disorderly heaps.
But Sören did not answer, he gazed at Marie angrily.
“Why didn’t you say so before?” he said and struck her arm.
“Forgive me, Sören, forgive me!” wept Marie, pressing
close to him, while her eyes sought his pleadingly.
Sören bent down wonderingly and kissed her. He was
utterly amazed.
“And it’s neither play-acting nor visions?” he asked,
half to himself.
Marie smiled and shook her head.
“The devil! Who ’d ’a’ thought—”
At first the relation between Marie and Sören was
carefully concealed, but when Palle Dyre had to make frequent
trips to Randers in his capacity of royal commissioner, his
lengthy absences made them careless, and before long it was
no secret to the servants at Tjele. When the pair realized
that they were discovered, they took no pains to keep the
affair hidden, but behaved as if Palle Dyre were at the other
end of the world instead of at Randers. Erik Grubbe they
recked nothing of. When he threatened Sören with his
crutch, Sören would threaten him with his fist, and when
he scolded Marie and tried to bring her to her senses, she
would tease him by reeling off long speeches without
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