"How was it possible?
How could you change in this way?
How did it happen ?" "Mother knows about it, Papa.

Mother has helped me," said Cornelli, going with shining eyes to the mother, for Mrs.Halm had retreated to the back of the room.
The Director now turned to his new guest.

"Welcome to our house," he said heartily, greeting both her and the children.

Holding Cornelli's hand within his own, he continued with emotion: "How different you have brought her back to me! How did you do it?
Can this be the same child that I brought you ?" The happy father had to look at Cornelli over and over again, for he hardly yet realized that this was his child.

Was this really Cornelli and not a creature of his imagination?
So he held the child's hand and looked again and again into her shining eyes; it really seemed as if he could not believe it.
Esther, laden with the dinner dishes, now came into the room to set the table.