It would be quite sufficient if one of them kept awake.
Then she took up the lamp and went out into the hall observing to her great satisfaction that the door thereof was provided with a good lock.
So she locked and fastened it.

With timid curiosity she then explored every corner with the lamp and came upon nothing suspicious.

Finally she returned to the guest room, locked the door of that also and placed the carriage lamp on the table, turning its shade towards the sleeping old man so that he might not be awakened by the glare of the lamp; and there she remained all alone, watching in the _csarda_ of the desolate _puszta_, patiently waiting for the night to pass over her homeless head.
So patient was she that only once did she take her watch from her bosom to see what the time was.
* * * * * It was now past midnight.
She began to calculate how long it would take the coachman to get to Oroshaza and how much time he would require to reach this place.

If he had got horses at once he ought to be near now.
A short time afterwards she heard the tread of horses' feet in the courtyard.

Those must be our horses, thought she, and hastening to the window looking out upon the courtyard, she pulled the blind a little to one side and looked out.
The night was so light outside that she could see the four horses quite plainly in the courtyard--but she observed that a man was sitting on _each_ of them.
"This is very curious," thought she, "_two_ men would have been quite sufficient to bring along the relay." Three of the four men dismounted from their horses and a fifth came out of the stable and had a short consultation with them; then the three approached the _csarda_ door and tried to open it.
This struck Henrietta as suspicious and she thought it was now high time to awake Mr.Gerzson.
"Pardon, papa Gerzson, but four men have arrived here." Still Mr.Gerzson did not awake.
Henrietta approached, bent over him and gently insisted: "My dear papa Gerzson, just wake up for a moment, somebody wants to come in." Even then Mr.Gerzson did not awake.
Henrietta listened.