"Please let me speak first! It is I who want to thank you.

I shall never be able to repay you for what you have done.

What wonders you have accomplished for my child! How you have been able to change and develop Cornelli! How well she looks now! I have to gaze at her again and again, for I can hardly believe that it is the same child.

How can I thank you enough?
How did you ever do it?
And what patience, care and trouble you must have taken with her.

I am afraid that it has required endless thought on your part to bring her back like this." "Oh, no, Mr.Hellmut, that was not the way at all," said Mrs.Halm.
"Cornelli has cost me neither patience, care, nor trouble.