If Aaron Gabor could fit out his Szeklers with artillery, why should not his namesake be able to do the same?
You young women may see my big guns; I'll show them to you.
But first promise me solemnly not to tell any mortal soul what you see--not even Manasseh." Blanka and Anna both pledged themselves most solemnly to secrecy, whereupon Aaron led them up to a height on which stood the ruins of Szekler-Stone Castle, one of the oldest monuments to be found in all Hungary.
After a short interval the three rejoined Manasseh, the two ladies laughing and in the merriest of moods, scarcely heeding their conductor's solemnly raised forefinger and sober mien, which were meant to remind them of their promise.

But they betrayed no secrets; they only laughed.

Yet Aaron thought it betrayal enough for them even to laugh.
"That's always the way," he muttered, "when you let a woman into a secret!" They soothed and caressed him, but only laughed the more as they did so.
"I wish you to understand that this is no trifling matter," he declared, "and that I had good reason to send those stones after that prying spy." This allusion checked the young women's merriment at once, and a shudder ran over them at the remembrance of what had passed.

"Did we both have the same thought ?" whispered Blanka to Anna.
"Yes," returned the latter, with a sigh.
That night, before she lay down to sleep, Anna veiled the little portrait that hung in her room, as if to prevent her seeing it in her dreams..