Everything here is deserted and forlorn.

Just think of the old watchman here and me, what miserable housemates we should be.

Won't you receive the child in your house, for she clearly longs to have a home?
I know that she will find one there and apparently has found it already.
She can learn by and by who her uncle is and then she can come to visit him sometimes." Amazed at this sudden change, Mrs.Maxa was silent for a while.

How she would have rejoiced at this prospect a few days ago! "I love Leonore like my own child and wanted nothing better than to keep her with me," she said finally, "but I think differently now.

The children belong to you, and the castle of their fathers must become their home.