He thought that the excited woman might forcibly enter the garden in order to seek the child.
"God be thanked that you are here again!" she cried when Maezli came out.
She quickly took her hand.

Mr.Trius, after violently shutting the gate, had immediately turned his back upon the visitors.
"I was simply frightened to death, Maezli.

How could you run away from me?
I did not know where you had got to." "You didn't need to be so frightened," Maezli said with calm assurance.
"I was with the Castle-Steward.

I don't need to be afraid of anything with him, not even of Mr.Trius." "What, the Castle-Steward! What are you saying, Maezli?
Who said it was the Steward ?" Apollonie's words were full of anxiety, as if Maezli might be threatened with great danger.
"He told me so himself.

He was sitting all alone under a big tree.