My aunt told us that he won't ever come back and that no one knows where he is.

If we knew where he is, we should have written to him long ago.

Salo would go to Spain as soon as he was allowed to and I should go to him in any case." "Why ?" the gentleman asked.
"Because he is our father's brother," she replied, "and we could love him like a father, too.

He is the only person in the whole world to whom we could belong.

We have wished many and many a time a chance to look for him, because we might live with him." "No, you couldn't do that.