"If that is all you want, you will find that. What shall you do first?"
"I shall first write to my mother, and tell her I have found this rough diamond whom she must accept as her daughter: then I shall take Czipra to her, and she shall stay there until she is baptized and I take her away again."
"I am very thankful that you will take all the burden of this ceremony off my shoulders. What must be done by priests, do without my seeing it. When shall you tell Czipra?"
"As soon as mother's answer comes back."
"And if your mother opposes the marriage?"
"I shall answer for that."
"Still it is possible. She may have other aims for you. What should you do then?"
"Then?" said Lorand reflectively: after a long pause he added: "Poor mother has had so much sorrow on my account."
"I know that."
"She has pardoned me all."