"You simply have to help me.

You knew my wife and you know my child and love her; and besides, she is attached to you.

Tell me what has come over her.

Since when has she been so frightfully stubborn?
Was the child always that way, or has she only grown more stubborn lately?
Have you noticed how she has changed in my absence ?" "There is nothing so very much the matter with Cornelli, Mr.Hellmut.
Cornelli is not an ill-natured child, I am sure of that.

But won't you take a seat, Director ?" Martha interrupted her speech, placing a chair now here and now there for her visitor, who was running excitedly to and fro.