It was not her wish to fan Bruno's rage afresh by the discovery that Loneli had been considered guilty.

She therefore narrated the incident to Apollonie just as Bruno had reported it.
Loneli's blue eyes glistened with joy when the story was told according to the truth.

She knew that the words spoken by the rector's widow had great weight with her grandmother.
"Can you see now that it was not Loneli's fault ?" Kurt cried out as soon as his mother had finished.
"Yes, I see it and I am happy that it is so," said Apollonie.

"How could one have suspected that boys who had a good education should want to hurt others without cause?
The young Falcon would never have done such a thing, I know that.

He only ran into the vegetable garden because his two friends were chasing him from both sides." Uncle Philip laughed: "I am glad you are so just to me, Mrs.Apollonie.
Even when you scolded the Falcon properly for tramping down your plants, you knew that it was not in maliciousness he did it but in self-defence.
I am afraid it is time to go now" and with these words he heartily shook his old acquaintance by the hand.