Maezli had not given up this title even now.
"Do you see, Philip, that you can't swim against the stream ?" said Mrs.
Maxa when she was sitting alone with her brother after dinner.

"The best thing you can do is to pay your old friend a call; that would add you to the list of his admirers, instead of your bearing him a grudge." But Uncle Philip violently objected to this proposal.
"Baron Bruno spoke of you with a sincere feeling of attachment which you apparently don't deserve," his sister said.

"He was afraid of your feeling towards him, though.

Listen to what he said 'I fear that he won't wish to have anything to do with me, and I shall be powerless in that case.'" "I won't refuse the hand of an old friend, though, Maxa," said the brother now, "if he offers it to me to reestablish peace.

What is he going to do for Salo's son ?" "Salo has already been sent word that he is to have the castle of his ancestors for a home," replied Mrs.Maxa.
"I am going out for a walk," Uncle Philip said suddenly, taking down his hat from the peg, and Mrs.Maxa guessed quite well where he was going.
He reappeared at supper time and sat down with merry eyes in the midst of them all.
"Leonore," he began, "as soon as you are the mistress of the castle, I shall often be your guest.