"I ask if they have gone already."
"They have gone."
"Glory be to God! And tell us now, did a noble go by here,--a cursed Pole with a young woman?"
"A noble? A Pole? I didn't see them."
"Was no one here?"
"There was a 'grandfather.' He persuaded the men to go to Hmelnitski through Zólotonosha, for he said that Prince Yeremi was coming here."
"Where?"
"Here. And from here would go to Zólotonosha, so the old man said."
"And the old man persuaded the men to rise?"
"He did."