The brooch on the other hand represented a butterfly, also with two sparkling diamond eyes; one of them was blue, a rare colour for a diamond.
Henrietta was indeed pleasantly surprised.
There was not a line of writing along with them, but was there any necessity for it?
How simple, how nice it all was! How well he must know her taste who had selected it! Her husband could never have hit upon such an idea.
What should she say to her husband if he should notice them?
But why should she show them to anybody?
She would not even put them on till the last moment, just before she started on her journey.

All day long she was as happy as a child who is going to its first party; even in her husband's presence she could not control her delight.
But Hatszegi never enquired why she was so joyous.

On the day before the entertainment he went with his wife to the town in question, where he owned, not the castle, it is true, but a comfortable mansion of considerable extent, whose first floor was rented by a mining engineer and his family.

These worthy people felt highly honoured at receiving the baron and his lady beneath their roof.

They gave their distinguished guests their best rooms which looked out upon the street, and retired themselves to the back of the house.