Still, as she helped him off with his pilot-coat he noticed that her hand trembled.

His attention was diverted, however, at the moment by the appearance of Henrik in the doorway, looking very frightened and conscious, and with his trousers still tucked up over his bare legs, and with the tin cup, in which he had his shrimps, in his hand.
Gjert came in now with some of the things for the house which his father had bought in Arendal, and impressing the doleful-looking "bagman" into the service, took him down with him to the boat to help him to bring up the rest.

He had only given his mother a hurried kiss, as he had seen at a glance that all was right this time.

When it was otherwise, he always kept by her, and, in look and manner, gave her all the help he could.

He had seen from his childhood, and comprehended so much of the unhappiness of her relations with his father, that he had constituted himself her friend and support, although, at the same time, he was devoted to his father.