The people themselves are arrayed in costly stuffs and furnish the adornment of the house.
After a simple opening prayer, the pastor ascended the pulpit and addressed his flock, in words intelligible to all, on such themes as patriotism, man's duty to his fellow-man, the blessings of toil, the recompense of good deeds in the doer's own bosom, and God's infinite mercy toward his children.

In his prayer the preacher referred to Jesus as the beloved Son of God, the model for mankind to follow, but he did not deny salvation and paradise to those that chose other leaders for their guidance.
After the service Blanka asked Aaron and Berthold to go with her to the preacher as witnesses while she announced her purpose to join the church.

After making this declaration in due form, she was reminded that she had two weeks in which to consider the matter carefully, at the end of which, if she was still of the same mind, she was to come back again and renew her declaration.
"Two weeks longer," sighed Blanka, "and then six weeks more for the divorce!" Aaron heard her sigh, and hastened to say: "If we make a special effort we can shorten this period.

Our law directs that an applicant for a divorce must either be a resident of, or own an estate in, Transylvania.
Therefore, if you could acquire a piece of land here, we should only have to wait for the consistory to assemble and ratify the divorce already granted by the Roman Curia, with the added permission to marry again.

That done, nothing further remains to hinder the marriage.