A momentary silence followed.
"I am satisfied with the advice," said Pani Krzycki, "and I thank you."
VI
Ladislaus, while his mother was in church and consulting the prelate, repaired, notwithstanding the early hour, to Pani Otocka. At the very beginning he raised to his lips both of her hands and kissed them so long that she, from that act alone, perceived his intentions.
"I knew it would be so! I knew it!" she cried with emotion and joy.
While he replied in a soft quivering voice:
"I did not require a week to perceive that I cannot live without her."
"I knew it," Zosia once more repeated. "Have you spoken with your mother, yet?"
"No. Yesterday, I ran about the city senselessly, after which I rushed to Gronski's and went to the hotel very late, and this morning I was informed that Mother was in church."
Pani Otocka again became anxious.