How does the peddler interpret the acts of kindness and hospitality shown by the crofter, the ironmaster and his daughter?

The peddler was a man who went around selling his self-made small rattraps of wire. He was leading a hard, monotonous, dull and lonely life of a vagabond. While moving along the road, it became dark. So he knocked at the door of the cottage of a crofter who showered all possible hospitality over the peddler. He gave him porridge, bed, lodging and played Majolis till bed time. He even proudly displayed the thirty kroner that he had got as payment for the cow's milk and put them in his leather pouch. This tempted the peddler to steal away his money. In a way he betrayed the confidence reposed in him by the crofter.

On the other hand, the owner of the Ramsjo Ironworks mistook him to be as his old acquaintance. He invited him for spending the Christmas Evening but the peddler firmly declined his offer though it was a bait for a vagabond to be the guest of honour at the manor house. The peddler had the view that the owner might give him some Kroner. So he did not reveal his identity. The owner sent his daughter Edla to bring the peddler. She pleaded most sympathetically and friendly. He agreed to go home. On his way to the manor house, he had ‘evil forebodings’. He was feeling guilty for stealing the crofter's money. Similarly he thought that bring upto the manor house was like throwing himself voluntarily into the lion's den. When the ironmaster came to know that the peddler was not his old acquaintance, he asked him to go out of the house immediately. But Edla insisted to let the stranger spend the Christmas evening one day in peace since they had called him. Her nice treatment, kindness, hospitality awoke the essential goodness in him. She moved the peddler so much that he left a Christmas gift with a letter to send thirty Kroner for the Crofter. Thus the peddler expressed his gratitude to her. He became a reformed persons.