"There is nobody in the castle, and you won't find any." It seemed strange to Maezli that there should be nobody to bring water to the Castle-Steward.
"I'll find somebody for him," she said, eagerly running down the incline to the door, in whose vicinity Mr.Trius was wandering up and down.
"You are to go up to the Castle-Steward at once," she said standing still in front of him, "and you are to bring him some cold water, because he has a headache.

But very quickly." Mr.Trius glanced at Maezli in an infuriated way as if to say: "How do you dare to come to me like this ?" Then throwing the door wide open he growled like a cross bear: "Out of here first, so I can close it." After Maezli had slipped out he banged the big door with all his might so that the hinges rattled.

Turning the monstrous key twice in the lock, he also bolted it with a vengeance.

By this he meant to show that no one could easily go in again at his pleasure.
Apollonie, who had been sitting down in the shade not far from the door now went up to Maezli and said, "You stayed there a long time.

What did the gentleman say ?" "Very little, but I told him a lot," Maezli said.