I know all this from Apollonie, who is in communication with Mr.Trius.
She keeps on scheming to find a way to set the rooms in order for her young master, as she still calls him.

She knows how his mother would wish everything to be for her son.

I understand quite well that she worries night and day about the state things are in at the castle.

Her former master has for nurse, servant, cook and valet only that peculiar and ancient Mr.Trius.She can hardly think about it without wishing that she might do something for her old friend.

The poor woman is so anxious to make his life at the castle a little more the way it used to be in the old times." "For heaven's sake, Maxa, I hope you are not trying to interfere.