The dress suggested was also of native Hungarian manufacture worn at one time by the greatest ladies.] At the very next _soiree_ the Countess Kengyelesy was attired in one of these blue stuff gowns with white spots, of home manufacture, and with a black lace head-dress--exactly as Szilard had described it to her.
"My dear friend, be so good as to look there!" said the count appropriating Szilard while he was still only half through the doorway.
"There she is costumed from head to foot exactly as you advised.

Ah! I pity you.

You are already in the toils." Szilard hastened at once to greet the countess, who treated the handsome young fellow with marked distinction all through the evening.

Indeed she made no secret of it.
Three days later Szilard was bound, by custom to pay a complimentary visit upon the Countess.

He purposely chose an hour when he knew she would not be at home, and left his card, but the same evening he encountered her at the theatre.