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Husband and wife drove at once to the Hotel Victoria, situated near the harbour.
Thyra felt happy again at Paul's side, squeezed in the corner of the fiacre. Yes, certainly, Christiania was the dream-city, full of gardens, fountains, grand buildings; a city great and splendid by day and by night! She felt joyous, as if she had drunk wine; she chattered with feverish animation. Never afterwards did she succeed in remembering what she said in that first hour of arrival; she did remember, however, that her pleasure was marred by the strange thoughtful look upon Paul's face, a look she had never noticed there before.