She was very sorry to leave the children too.

Yet she was obliged to go, on Anna's account, for her father could not be persuaded by letters to do anything.

Had she appealed to him in writing to forgive his rejected child, he would hardly have read the epistle to the end.

Something might more easily be won from him through words, by taking advantage of a favorable moment.
She must have speech with him, yet she dreaded the life in his castle, especially as she was forced to acknowledge, that she too was by no means necessary to her father.

To secure the inheritance, he had sent her to a terrible existence with her aunt; while she lay dangerously ill, he had gone to a tournament, and the letter received from him the day before, contained nothing but the information that he was refused admittance to the city, and a summons for her to go to Junker de Heuter's house at the Hague.