"And in three months my fame will reach Mars with all its appurtenances! . . . If you are going to bluff, at least let it be a good bluff" laughed Glogowski.
Janina greeted them all, and in a subdued voice answered Mimi who was asking her about Grzesikiewicz: "An old friend of mine and former neighbor, a very honest man . . ."
"He must be flushed with money, that youth . . . he looks it!" exclaimed Glogowski.
"Yes, he is wealthy. His family owns the largest sheep-growing ranch in Congressional Poland . . ."
"A shepherd! . . . he rather looks as though he were a keeper of elephants! . . ." jested Wawrzecki.
Kotlicki only smiled and discreetly observed Janina.
"Something must have happened here . . . for her voice shows she is deeply moved," he thought. "Perhaps that was her former lover? . . ."
"Come, hurry, for Mela is waiting downstairs in a hack," cried Mimi impatiently.
Janina dressed hastily and they all went out together.
They rode to the bank of the Wisla and from there took a boat to
Bielany.