When Gjert was in the boat, Elizabeth had a sort of security that Salve would at all events not be absolutely reckless; and Gjert always took care that she should have news of them by other pilots or fishermen from Merdoe, from the different places they put in to.

If the boy was not with his father she would sometimes send him in to Arendal to look for him.
This time the pilot made a long stay at home, and during the whole time not a single domestic jar occurred.

For a couple, indeed, who had been married as long as they had, such unbroken harmony would, under any circumstances, have been remarkable.

Little Henrik had even had his father as a companion on one of his shrimping expeditions; and much of Salve's time had since been taken up in rigging a little brig for his delighted son.
The only point upon which a harmless little difference occurred was the question of Gjert's schooling.

They were very fairly well-to-do people for their position, and his mother had one day, as if the idea had suddenly occurred to her, asked why they should not send him to school in Arendal; he would be able to lodge with her aunt there, she said.