"Is she rich?"
"And that question you could defer to another time, but if you are in a hurry, ask Dolhanski. He knows those things best."
"I ask you because I see him with her and hear him chattering in English."
"Oh, that is a play within a play! He is after Pani Otocka."
"Ah!"
"Equally as old as it is fruitless. For it is yet difficult to ascertain with any exactness how much Miss Anney possesses, while the amount which the late Director Otocki left his wife is perfectly known."
"I have a hope that my beautiful cousin will give him the mitten."
"Which would increase a beautiful collection. But tell me, what do you think of your cousins?"
"Certainly--Pani Otocka--certainly--both have what the Galicians call 'something ennobling.' But Panna Marynia is still quite a child."
Gronski directed his eyes at the slim and slender figure walking before them and said: