“Certainly; when you gave us such good advice.”
“And when we were so sorrowful in prison, your words, which we remembered, consoled us, and gave us courage.”
“Was it not you, who delivered us from the prison at Leipsic, in that dark night, when we were not able to see you?”
“I!”
“What other but you would thus have come to our help, and to that of our old friend?”
“We told him, that you would love him, because he loved us, although he would not believe in angels.”
“And this morning, during the tempest, we had hardly any fear.”
“Because we expected you.”
“This morning—yes, my sisters—it pleased heaven to send me to your assistance. I was coming from America, but I have never been in Leipsic. I could not, therefore, have let you out of prison. Tell me, my sisters,” added he, with a benevolent smile, “for whom do you take me?”
“For a good angel whom we have seen already in dreams, sent by our mother from heaven to protect us.”