Your uncle and I have just done some business together.

He told me how different everything used to be in the castle grounds and that he regretted not understanding about these matters.

So he asked me to take charge of things, as they were in my special field.
He hoped my old attachment to the place"-- at these words Uncle Philip's voice became quite hoarse suddenly--"Maxa, your plum-cake is so sweet it makes one hoarse," he said, for he would never admit that he had been overcome by deep emotion.

"So I have undertaken to attend to the matter and I shall often come to the castle." That Uncle Philip belonged to the castle, too, now awoke hearty outbursts from the children, which the mother happily joined, for it had been her greatest wish that the two should become friends again.
The last evening before Leonore was to move into the castle had come, and the children were all sitting in a little corner.

They were in the most cheerful mood, busily making delightful plans for the future.