"But you shall have one just like your mother's, my boy.

I can now bear the sight of it again," the grandfather said.
"Does old John still live, who made the barge and scraped the pebble-walks so nicely ?" Erick asked another time.
"What, you know of that too?
Yes, indeed, he is still living, but the joy of seeing my daughter's son whom I am bringing home will almost kill him," said the colonel, smiling contentedly at the prospect.
When Sally and Erick told of their first meeting and Sally's call in Marianne's cottage, and now it came out that it was the same Marianne who had pulled Erick out of the water, and who had stuck so faithfully to his mother, the colonel suddenly jumped up and demanded that Erick should go with him at once to Marianne for, from pure joy, they both had not thanked her as they ought to.

But the lady had foreseen such a request, and had not let Marianne go home.

And so she was called into the room and the colonel quickly took a chair and placed it in front of him.

Marianne had to sit down there and tell everything that she knew of his daughter, and what she herself had heard and seen.