"What's the name of the place?"
"Haldenbrunn."
"Oh! Have you come all the way from there on foot?"
"No, somebody let me ride with him. He's the son of the Farmer yonder—a good, honest man."
"Ah, at his age I should have let you ride with me too!"
They had now come to the farm, and the old man went with Amrei into the room and cried:
"Mother, where are you?"
The wife came out of another room, and Amrei's hands trembled; she would gladly have fallen upon her neck—but she could not—she dared not.
Then the Farmer, bursting into laughter, said:
"Just think, dame! Here's a girl from Haldenbrunn, and she has something to say to Farmer Landfried and his wife, but she won't tell me what it is. Now do you tell her what my name is."