The doctor and I left at the same time.
I had no sooner got out of the door than I again stumbled upon Tóni Sági.
"Corpo di Bacco! And you have been sitting all this time with that pretty young lady?"
"And you have been walking all the time in front of the door, eh?"
The window of the house opposite was full of inquisitive female faces. I rushed into a coach and had myself driven to the railway station. The same evening I was at Szeged. There I remained for three days, and stayed with my wife till her provincial engagement was over. On every one of these three days one or two anonymous letters reached my wife from Buda-Pest of the following import: "My poor dear friend,—Your husband passes whole nights and days with his former lady-love, the lieutenant's wife. Our hearts bleed for you. The whole town knows all about it."
How we did laugh at these letters! But what if I had not traversed the intentions of our dear friends?
CHAPTER XIX
Esaias Medvési[110]
[110] Bearish.