"This faithless deed has robbed me and my daughter of 5,000 florins.[53] If the matter only touched me, I would disdain to notice it: but that sum was the savings of my little daughter."
[53] Above £415—$2,000.
"Sir, that sum shall be repaid you," said grandmother, "but I beg you not to say another word on the subject before this lady. You can see you are killing her with it."
As she was speaking, Bálnokházy gazed intently at me, and in his gaze were many questions, all of which I could very well have answered.
"I am surprised," he said at last, "that these revelations are entirely new to you. I thought that the same person who had acquainted you with Lorand's disappearance, had unfolded to you therewith all those critical circumstances, which caused his disappearance, seeing that I related all myself to that person."
Now mother and grandmother too turned their gaze upon me.
Grandmother addressed me: "You did not write a word about all this to us."
"No."
"Nor did you mention a word about it here when we arrived."
"Yet I told it all myself to my nephew."