”They began to run, and they flew into the house and threw themselves into their father’s arms.” (p.61)
”The poor man hadn’t had a happy hour since he had left the children in the forest, and meantime his wife had died.” (p. 62)
I think these two sentences describe the fact that the father is loved by Hansel and Gretel and he loves them too. In the first sentence, you can see how the farther loved by their children even after he did such a bad thing to their children. The children run and flew into the house and throw themselves into their father’s arms. This means the father is loved by his children. Hansel and Gretel know that their father is not a bad man but a good man. That’s why they wanted to go back their house when they escaped from wicked witch. And second sentence shows the father couldn’t live happily after he and the step-mother throw their children into the forest. This means the father completely didn’t want to throw them into the forest. He had to do because the step-mother forced him to do this bad thing.