"Don't you like this part of the country?"
"It is like a pock-marked face," he replied. "It is not the sort of place one would come to to choose a wife."
Gyuri started. Had the man discovered his intentions?
"Why do you think so?"
"My last master, the baron (János had been at some baron's before in Sáros county), used to say to his sons, and he was a clever man too, 'Never look for a wife in a place where there are neither gnats, good air, nor mineral springs!'"
At this both Veronica and Gyuri were obliged to laugh.
"That's a real Sáros way of looking at things. But, you see, you have vexed this young lady."
"According to your theory I shall have to be an old maid!" said Veronica.
But János vigorously denied the possibility of such a thing.
"Why, dear me, that is not likely; why ... you ..."