Oh, please let me in, Mr.
Trius! You know that I'll do anything in the world for you.

Please let me nurse the sick master!" Apollonie's voice had grown supplicating.
"Forbidden," was the curt reply.
"But I am no stranger here.

I have served in this house for more than thirty years," Apollonie went on eagerly.

"I know what is needed and what the master ought to have.

Things are not attended to at all, I fear, and indeed I know it.