"It would not have happened if I had gone away; and it is your fault that
I did not."
"Why?"
"Because I did not wish to leave you when you were sick."
"And what will you do now?"
"Now I shall go."
"Where?"
"To Mazowsze to see Danusia; and after that to search for peacock's tufts among the Germans."
Macko was silent for a moment, then he said:
"He returned the 'letter,' but the mortgage is recorded in the mortgage-book at the court. Now the abbot will not give us even a skojec."
"I do not care. You have money, and I do not need anything for my journey. I will be received everywhere and my horses will be fed; if I only had a suit of armor on my back and a sword in my hand, I would need nothing else."