I shall be unspeakably happy if you will let me stay.

Please give my love to Martha, Esther, and Matthew.
YOUR CORNELLI.
After reading the letters, the Director shook his head.

"What on earth has happened ?" he said to himself.

"A few weeks have hardly passed since they told me that this child could not be set to rights, and I have myself seen how stubborn she was and how strangely she behaved.
And what a change already! However, I must not take literally what has probably been written in a moment of excitement." Mr.Hellmut was very glad about Cornelli's intention to remain in town, for thus his greatest care had been taken from him.

A lovely woman, who with her children had made a most favorable impression on him, had promised to devote herself to his child, and he only wondered how long the present arrangement would last.
Mrs.Halm had soon arranged a regular course of studies for Cornelli.
Agnes was very anxious for her to start music lessons right away, for she thought that that was the most important thing.