Don't make two out of them, Maezli! All the world knows that Mr.
Trius is the Steward of Castle Wildenstein; he is one person and not two." Then Maezli answered, "Mr.Trius is one and the Castle-Steward is another.

They are two people and not one." After they had repeated this about three times Bruno said, "Oh, Kurt, leave her alone.

Maezli thinks that there are two, when she calls him first Mr.Trius and then Mr.Castle-Steward." That was too much for Maezli, and shouting vigorously, "They are two people, they are two people," she ran away.
Leonore had related in the meantime how Maezli had proposed to visit the sick Castle-Steward and how she had at first been reluctant to go, till Maezli had made her feel that she was wrong.

She related everything that had happened and all the questions he had asked her.
"Just think, Aunt Maxa," Leonore went on, "the gentleman knows our uncle in Spain.

He said that he had been there, too, and he knows that our uncle is old and ill and is living all by himself.