THE MOTHER'S ABSENCE HAS CONSEQUENCES Next morning Salo was allowed to go into his sister's room in order to say good-bye to her.

She looked at him so cheerfully that he asked with eager delight, "Do you feel so much better already, Leonore ?" "Oh, yes, I feel as if I were at home," she replied with shining eyes.
"I feel as if our mother had come down from heaven to take care of me." "When you can get up and go downstairs you will be happier still.

I know how much you will enjoy meeting the whole family," said Salo.

"Then you will feel as if you were in a real home that belongs to you." "It is such a shame that you have to go," Leonore sighed, but this time the tears did not come quite so urgently.

How things had changed since yesterday--how different it was now to stay behind! At this moment Mrs.Maxa entered the room.
She had left it as she wanted to give brother and sister an opportunity to see each other alone, but the time had come for Salo to depart, and he was obliged to leave his sister.