He offered some to Blanka.
"I can eat this all my life," said he, with a roguish twinkle in his eyes, "but you only eleven weeks longer." She understood the allusion.

In Szeklerland a lover and his sweetheart bear themselves with much decorum and mutual respect throughout the entire period of their engagement.

Only after the wedding do they exchange the first kiss.
Anna wished to come to her new friend's aid at this embarrassing juncture.

"It won't be so long as that, Aaron!" she exclaimed.
"Let us reckon it up, my little turtledove," returned the brother.
"To-morrow we will tell the parson that our sister Blanka wishes to join our communion.

The law requires her to wait two weeks after this first announcement and then to go and declare her purpose a second time.