Chapter 29
"And if I have wept alone, it is my own sorrow."--GOETHE Latterly Otto had been but seldom at Mr. Berger's. He had no interest about the merchant's home. The family showed him every politeness and mark of confidence; but his visits became every week more rare. Business matters, however, led him one day there. Chance or fate, as we call it, if the shadow of a consequence shows itself, caused Maren to pass through the anteroom when Otto was about taking his departure. She was the only one of the ladies at home. In three weeks she would return to Lemvig. She said that she could not boast of having enjoyed Mr. Thostrup's society too often. "Your old friends interest you no longer!" added she, somewhat gravely. With this exception she had amused herself very well in the city, had seen everyt
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