So they did, and as the two friends wandered together through the evening, they had much to tell each other and were very talkative; only when 'Lizebeth began to talk about the strangers in Marianne's house, was the latter silent and hardly spoke.

Where the road went into the woods, they parted, and Marianne had to promise to return the call as soon as possible.

Then 'Lizebeth stepped out vigorously and arrived at home in such good spirits that the parson's wife resolved to send her often to Marianne on a visit.
When Marianne on her return came near her cottage, she heard lovely singing; she well knew the song.

Every evening at twilight the stranger sat down at the piano and sang, and she sang so beautifully and with a voice that came from such depths that it touched Marianne's heart so that she could not tear herself away when she heard the song, until it was ended.

But there was one song in particular which Marianne loved to hear and which the woman sang every day, either at the beginning or the end of her songs.