"Why, that is my Veronica!"
The lawyer smiled quietly and bowed.
"That is," went on the priest in his kind, gentle voice, "for the future she is your Veronica, if you wish."
By this time Veronica had seen and recognized her brother, had jumped out of the carriage and run to meet him, calling out:
"Here we are, safe and sound. How anxious you must have been! And our carriage is broken to bits; and oh! if you had only seen the horses! All sorts of things have happened, and I have brought Madame Krisbay."
The priest embraced her, and was glad she seemed to know nothing of his accident. How sensible of Gyuri not to have mentioned it!
"Yes, yes, my darling, you shall tell me everything in order later on."
But Veronica wanted to tell everything at once, the carriage accident in Bábaszék, the supper at Mravucsáns' (oh, yes! she had nearly forgotten, Mr. Mravucsán had sent his kind regards), then to-day's journey, the loss of her earring and its recovery ...
The priest, who was slowly beginning to understand things, here broke in upon her recital.
"And did you give the finder of it a reward?"