"That is my affair, I will make you one."
"But Transylvania has another prince, John Kemény."
"That is also my affair. I will settle with him soon."
Apafi shrugged his shoulders; he felt that he had never been entangled in a worse affair.—"That was a true presentiment of my wife's, that to-day a great danger threatened me," he thought.
The Pasha resumed the conversation. "Now then, without further delay, write an order for a convention of the States so that the ceremony of inauguration may take place as quickly as possible."
"I—who will come at my call? My lord, I am one of the least important of the nobles of my country: they will only laugh at me and say that I have gone crazy."
"And then they will become aware that they themselves have gone crazy."
"Then surely I could not send out such a summons, for, with the exception of the country of the Szeklers, Kemény has all in his power."
"Then we will send to the Szeklers, they will certainly come."
"And even among the Szeklers the more influential are unknown to me, for I am not one of them. There I know such people as John Daczo, Stephen Run and Stephen Nalaczy."