"How are you Lisa?" asked Elsa who had just met her at the train station.
"I'm fine Elsa. How is mother?"
"Oh she's just fine dear. She's back at the mansion. She just got her false Identification and we're going to meet her at St. Maria's. Did you're mother tell you about Gizi?" Elsa asked, driving the Maybach.
Lisa nodded with sadness in her eyes. Gizi didn't deserve to have that horrid thing happen to her, nobody did. She was glad mother was taking her in. If the Nazis were still in power after Lisa was done with school she knew she'd resist them too.
"Mother Maria Margareta, how are you." Elsa asked the nun she knew well, since she was on St. Maria's board of directors.
"Elsa I've heard about what you've been doing at the cathedral. God Bless you. Magda's also told me why she's taking Gizi to live with her. If only you could take all the students away from those evil Nazis and their plans."
"I wish we could too"
"Hi, are you my Aunt Magda?" asked Gizi of Elsa who just walked in the room.
"I am darling. That's my friend Elsa."
"How do you do?" asked Elsa.
"I'm happy to meet my Aunt Magda."
"Good darling, this is your cousin Lisa." Said Magda.
"Hello Gizi."
"Hi, Lisa"
"God Bless you my child, remember all children are special in God's eyes", said Mother Maria Margareta making the sign of the cross.
On the way back home Lisa asked Gizi,"So what do you at St. Maria's?"
"I learned how to sew and knit and I can cook a little too."
"What do you do for fun?"
I sing, read and go to church."
"What songs do you like to sing? Do you sing the Name Game?" Lisa had a love/hate relationship with that song. Everyone at her boarding school sang it!
"No I like to sing Jesus Loves Me, Do Re Mi the Lonely Goat Herd and Edelweiss."
Oh dear thought Elsa, Georg's children sang some of those songs. She just wanted to put the Von Trapps out of her mind for a while.
"Oh those are nice songs. I like to sing too. I can teach you a gypsy lullaby and dance."
"I heard a story about a gypsy once."
"You'll hear many more if you want."
"I want to."
"I'll tell you some tonight, then." Lisa liked this. She had always wanted a sister and now her cousin was living with her. She knew they'd have fun together.
"Well darlings we're home. Welcome to your new home Gizi."
"It's real pretty Aunt Magda."
"Thank you dear. We'll be spending time at Elsa's house too. That's where we must go if the Nazi's ever come looking for us."
"Mother let's not talk about that! Come, Gizi you can teach me all the songs you know."
"That sounds fun!" Gizi ran into the mansion with Lisa.
"Be careful, Sr. Maria Margareta told me you had a bad heart."
"Oh she's just as lively as Georg's children. If Maria was here Gizi would be climbing trees", said Elsa as she walked into her friend's mansion.