but when she tried to set him down in the place where she had found him , he did not want to let her go ; but clasped his arms firmly about her neck . in vain she said to him several times : " torre jeppe , let me go ! " at last he said : " i will not let you go until you promise me that you will go this very night to the brook and ask three times : ' anna perstochter , do you forgive torre jeppe ? ' " the girl promised to do as he said , and he at once released her . the brook was a good mile off ; but she went there and asked three times in a loud voice , as she had promised : " anna perstochter , do you forgive torre jeppe ? " and when she had called the third time a woman 's voice replied from out of the water : " if god has forgiven him , then i , too , forgive him ! "
the brook .
where did torre jeppe want the girl to go ?
where did torre jeppe want the girl to go ?