When they had passed half-way across the garden Maezli suddenly stood still.
"Oh, I forgot something," she said.

"I have to go back again.

Please wait for me, I won't be long." Maezli disappeared but came back very shortly with a large picture-book under each arm.

They were the biggest she had found and she had chosen them because she thought: The bigger the books, the bigger his delight at looking at them.
"Now I'll tell you what I thought," she said on reaching Leonore.

"You see, up in the castle under a big tree sits the sick Castle-Steward.