"If I could only paint that picture!" sighed Manasseh.
"You succeeded with the Colosseum," was Blanka's encouraging rejoinder.
"That was Rome, this is Toroczko. I could hit my sweetheart's likeness; my mother's is beyond me."
Nevertheless he was determined to try his hand; so the others left him at work and went on to view the curiosities of the Szekler Stone.
"Take good care of my wife," Manasseh called to his brother, "and don't let her fall over any precipice."
"Never fear," Aaron shouted back. "The whole Szekler Stone shall fall first."
"Promise not to take Blanka and Anna up Hidas Peak."
"I promise."
"On your honour as a Szekler and a Unitarian?"
"On my honour as a Szekler and a Unitarian."