The servants took care of his coat and luggage. One maid servant guided him to Bodil's room. Bodil was asleep on her bed in a red satin gown. She woke up slowly and giggled. John felt a current running through his spine. He felt that he had married Lady Macbeth plus Cleopatra all at once. She did not rise up from her bed, nor walked up to her husband. She signalled him to sit on a chair next to her bed. John thought: Now, now, that is a real daring to order a gallant like me to do something like this. Tough he felt a compulsion to follow her instructions, nonetheless he did not sit down. He just nodded his head signalling he was all right there and he did not need to sit. She giggled again. "So, what gift my dear husband has brought me from his far of motherland?"
John smiled and produced a platinum ring from his pocket and held it before her. She did not rise from her position. "Why is not my husband make me wear the ring?"
John smiled. He would not fall to her instructions so soon. He smiled and put the ring inside his pocket again. She wreathed in her bed. "Is it the price of of my long preserved virginity, dear husband?"
John said, "No dear wife, it is just a token of admiration."
"Arrgh, I am a big girl now. I do not play with toys or tokens no more. I beg a bigger gift, because I deserve it."
John peered at her.
She said, "Give me a head..."
John was astonished, "A head of what? An antelope, a tiger, a boar, a bison?"
She said, "Or of an alpha..."