Paula will forgive you, too; I know her--you will see.

Katharina loved you of course; but she, dear Heaven! She is almost as much a child as I am; and if only you are kind to her and make her some pretty present she will soon be comforted.

She really deserves to be punished for bearing false witness, and her punishment cannot, at any rate, be so heavy as yours." These words from the lips of an innocent child could not but fall like seed corn on the harrowed field of the young man's tortured soul and refresh it as with morning dew.

Long after Mary had gone to rest he lay thinking them over..