And now they came to a ditch.

Lady Szentirmay boldly raced towards it, and was over it in a trice; a moment later, Madame Karpathy also leaped the ditch, her slender figure swayed and danced during the leap; after her plunged her escort, Count Gregory, the Whitsun King, and some other horsemen.

The people on the balcony applauded.
Only Karpathy felt uneasy, and did not know where to bestow himself.

He descended among the grooms, and finding old Paul there, said to him, anxiously-- "I can't help feeling anxious lest some accident should happen to my wife.

Isn't that horse rather shy ?" "The steadiest goer in the world; but perhaps you would like me to go after her ?" "Well, I should.