How beautiful it was to live again, to be happy and gay, to have hopes, expect good in the future, to love and be proud in one's love, to go with head erect, to be all in all to someone!
At noon they arrived at Lankadomb.
Czipra ran out to meet them and clapped her hands.
"You were driven away; how did you get back so soon? Well no one expected you to dinner."
Lorand was the first to leap off the cart, and tenderly offered his hand to the girl.
"We have arrived, my dear Czipra. Even if you did not expect us to dinner, you can give us some of your own."
"Oh, no," said the girl in a whisper, blushing at the same time, "I have been accustomed to eat at the servant's table, when you were not at home, and you have brought a guest too. Who is that gentleman?"
"My brother, Desi, a very good fellow. Kiss him, Czipra."
Czipra did not wait to be told twice, and Desiderius returned the kiss.
"Now give him a room: to-day we shall stay here. Send up water to my room, we have got very dusty on the way, although we wished to be handsome to-day."