Then the letter was handed to me by a servant; the high people, whom I could hear conversing in the adjoining apartment, probably considered it too much trouble to deliver it to me personally.
On paying my respects to this amiable family in Reikjavik, I was not a little surprised to recognise in Frau von H--- one of those ladies who in Copenhagen had not had the civility to ask me to be seated.

Five or six days afterwards, Herr von H--- returned my call, and invited me to an excursion to Vatne.

I accepted the invitation with much pleasure, and mentally asked pardon of him for having formed too hasty an opinion.
Frau von H---, however, did not find her way to me until the fourth week of my stay in Reikjavik; she did not even invite me to visit her again, so of course I did not go, and our acquaintance terminated there.

As in duty bound, the remaining dignitaries of this little town took their tone from their chief.

My visits were unreturned, and I received no invitations, though I heard much during my stay of parties of pleasure, dinners, and evening parties.