I daresay she is wanting to see you." "If mother is not ill I had rather stay here with you, father, until you go in to see her yourself.

She has Henrik with her." "You would ?" said his father, in a rather toneless voice, and looking at him as if some new idea had been suggested to him by the boy's reply.
"But I wish you to go, Gjert," he said then, suddenly, in a changed tone, that admitted of no further question.

"Mother took no things with her.

You must take her Sunday gown, and what else you know she will want, in with you in the trunk there.

It may be a long while before--before aunt is well," he said, and left the house.
While Gjert packed up the things, his father went down to the strand and got the row-boat ready himself for him.
When the boy started he stroked the child's cheek, but said a little bitterly, "Remember me to your mother now, and say that father is coming, as he promised, on Wednesday.