Now she is to be violently taken from us.

Isn't that absolutely cruel ?" Lippo, coming close to Leonore, also did his best to console her.

He remembered that he could not say "stay with us" any more, but he had another plan.
"Don't cry, Leonore," he said encouragingly.

"As soon as I am big, Uncle Philip has promised to give me a house and a lot of meadows.

I'll be a farmer then, and I'll write to you to come to live with me, and Salo can come for the holidays, too." Leonore could not help smiling, but it only brought more tears when she thought how much love she was receiving from all these children, and that she had to leave them and might never see them again.