This kept her from beginning.
"Tell me what you want, Loneli," Kurt encouraged her, when he saw her hesitation.
So Loneli began: "I wanted to ask you if--if--oh, Kurt! Are you so sad on account of what happened at the castle and because you thought there was no ghost ?" "I don't want to hear anything more about it," Kurt said evasively, pulling a handful of leaves from the hedge and throwing them angrily to the ground.
"But it might only have been a man after all," Loneli continued quietly.
"Yes, yes, that is easily said, Loneli.

How can you talk when you haven't even seen him ?" Kurt flung the last leaves away impatiently and tried to go.

But Loneli would not yield.
"Just wait a moment, Kurt," she entreated.

"It is true that I did not see him, but Clevi told me all about him.

I know why he looked that way and why he was so enormous.