Macko visited him every day and tried to console him. They spoke sorrowfully about Zbyszko’s inevitable death, and still more sorrowfully about the fact that the family would become extinct.
“It cannot be otherwise, unless you marry,” Zbyszko said once.
“I would prefer to find some distant relative,” answered the sorrowful Macko. “How can I think about women, when they are going to behead you. And even if I am obliged to marry, I will not do it, until I send a knightly challenge to Lichtenstein, and seek to avenge your death. Do not fear!”
“God will reward you. I have at least that joy! But I know that you will not forgive him. How will you avenge me?”
“When his duty as an envoy has ended, there may be a war! If there be war, I will send him a challenge for single combat before the bat
