"Which do you prefer, to ride or to walk?"
"If you are not tired, I would rather walk," answered he.
"Very well. I am not tired at all. But where shall we go? Would you look at the pigeon-shooting?"
"Willingly, but we shall not be alone there. De Sinten and young Kladzki will be sure to exercise after lunch."
"Yes; but they will not trouble us. When pigeons are the question, these two young men grow deaf and blind to all else that happens around them. For that matter, let them see me with my great man!"
And, turning her head, she looked with a smile into his eyes:—
"Doesn't the great man wish that himself?"
"Of course, let them see us!" answered Svirski, raising her hand to his lips.
"Then we will go down; I like well enough to see the shooting."
"Let us go."