"We should only be more keen for our other work next day, if we could really devote ourselves to music for a while, instead of always stopping off in the middle whenever we are in the mood to sing." The children's mother, however, did not agree with Agnes, so the nights had to be used for sleeping as before.
Cornelli's singing delighted Agnes more and more.

Cornelli sang everything as lightly and freely as a bird, and with such a clear and resonant voice that everybody got pleasure from it.

There was no other voice in the whole school which was as sure and as full as Cornelli's.
Even the teacher said so, and during the singing lesson he placed her right in front of him, because she was the best leader of the chorus.
In the middle of winter Mr.Hellmut wrote to Mrs.Halm to inform her that he was taking a lengthy journey to foreign parts.

As he felt that Cornelli was well taken care of in her household, he was anxious to use this opportunity for travelling.

He also wrote that he had shortened his last trip in order not to tie his kind cousin and her friend too long to his lonely house.