She announced that the carriage was ready.
A keen observer would soon have remarked what a change the host's relation had worked in the two friends.

Wilhelm was no longer so free toward poor Eva.

Otto, on the contrary, approached her more,--and at their leave-taking they offered her a greater present than they would otherwise have given.
She stood with Otto at the door, and assisted him on with his travelling cloak.
"Preserve your heart pure!" said he, gravely; "that is more than beauty!" The young girl blushed, and gazed at him with astonishment; in such a manner had no one of his age ever before spoken to her.
"The poor girl!" said Otto; "but I think she is come to good people." "She has a strange glance!" said Wilhelm.

"Do you know that there is really a certain affinity between you and her?
It was to me quite striking." "That is a compliment which I cannot accept," returned Otto, smiling.
"Yet, perhaps, I might resemble her." It was not yet three o'clock when the friends reached Ringsted.
"I have never before been so far in Zealand," said Otto.
"Shall I be your guide ?" returned Wilhelm.

"Ringsted has a street and an inn, and one is very badly served there, as you will soon both see and experience yourself.