All wondered greatly, and a moment of silence followed; then the voice of the little knight was heard on a sudden,—
“Basia, do you hear?”
“Michael, will you be quiet?” answered Basia.
But Michael would not be quiet, for various cunning thoughts were coming to his head. It seemed to him above all that with that affair another equally important might be accomplished; hence he began to talk, as it were to himself, carelessly, as about the commonest thing in the world,—
“As God lives, it would be well to visit Pan Yan and his wife; but he will not be at home now, for he is going to the hetman; but she has sense, and is not accustomed to tempt the Lord God, therefore she will stay at home.”
Here he turned to Krysia. “The spring is coming, and the weather will be fine. Now it is too early f
