[66] Zsandar. The name as well as the thing was quite new to Hungary.—Tr.
It was only after supper that the guests began to give me to understand that they did not yet know "whom they had the honour of addressing."
My worthy host constrained his honest features, and introduced me under the pseudonym by which I was known in the village, "Mr. Albert Benke."
"Surely not the actress Rosa Laborfalvy's younger brother, Bebus?"
"Yes, Bebus! the very same."
(That might pass very well. Poor Bebus! he had perished in some out-of-the-way corner during the war.)
"Why, I knew him quite well! I have a lively recollection of his features. Why, 'tis Bebus, of course! And how's your sister? Is it true that she's married?"
"So I have heard."
"To a certain Maurus Jókai, eh? Do you know him?"
"I have never spoken to him."