"Well, if they don't know anything about it at the last house we had better turn back," said Raining to himself; and, when it had grown quite dark, he approached the house and began to talk with the master who was dawdling about the door.
"God bless thee, countryman! where's the barátfa inn?"
The man first of all measured the questioner from head to foot, and then he merely remarked: "God requite thee! over yonder!" and he vaguely indicated the direction with his head.
"We want to go there; can't you show us the way?" asked Topay.
The man seized the questioner's hand and pointed with it to a herdsman's fire in the distance.
"Look; do you see the shine of its windows there?"
"That way 'tis nearer, t'other way it's quicker."
"What do you mean?"
"If you go that way you'll go astray the quicker, and if you go t'other way you may plump into a bog."