Leonore can have her quarters in your mother's rooms." "I wonder if you would like to see the rooms you knew so well, Mrs.
Maxa," the Baron said slowly.
Mrs.Maxa gladly assented to this.
"May I go everywhere ?" she asked.

"I know my way so well." "Certainly, wherever you wish," the Baron replied.
Entering the large hall, Mrs.Maxa was filled with deep emotion.

Here she had spent the most beautiful days of her childhood in delicious games with the unforgettable Leonore and the two young Barons.

Everything was as it had been then.

The large stone table in the middle, the stone benches on the walls and the niches with the old knights of Wallerstaetten stood there as of yore.
When she went into the dining-hall, everything looked bare and empty.
The portraits of ancestors had been taken from the walls and the glinting pewter plates and goblets were gone from the large oaken sideboard.