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Sometimes strange thoughts crossed the Bohemian's mind; once when he and Anulka remained somewhat in the rear near the packhorses, he suddenly turned toward her and said: "Do you know I shall devour you here as a wolf devours a lamb." She heartily laughed, and showed her pretty little white teeth. "Do you want to eat me?" she asked. "Yes I even with the little bones."
Neither fell asleep readily, especially Sieciechowa, who was restless and turned from side to side. At length Jagienka moved her head toward Anulka and whispered: "Anulka?" "What is it?" "It seems to me that you are much taken with that Bohemian.... Is it so?" Her question remained unanswered. But Jagienka whispered again: "I understand it all.... Tell me."
Hearing this, all were frightened; even Macko was not himself. Jagienka turned toward the forest and made the sign of the cross. But Anulka searched in vain in her skirt and apron for something with which to cover her eyes, but finding nothing she covered them with her fingers, from between which tears began to trickle in big drops.
"My God!" said the overjoyed Macko. "She looks like some marvelous young lady or like a flower, or something else!" "And this one here I am sure it must also be somebody in disguise?" "This is Sieciechowa," answered Jagienka. "It would be improper for me to be alone among you. How could I? Therefore I have taken Anulka with me so that two courageous women will be of help and service.
Hlawa, after having kissed the hand of Jagienka, lifted in turn the hand of Sieciechowa to his lips and said: "Not only need you not fear me, but whilst you are with me you need fear nothing, for I shall not give you to anybody." Then the men went into the front room whilst Jagienka and Anulka retired to the alcove and slept together in a wide and comfortable bed.
And he cast such a look at her that she melted under his glances. Then they lapsed into silence, only their hearts were beating intensely, his with desire, and hers with pleasurable intoxication tinged with fear. But the Bohemian's passion at first entirely prevailed over his tenderness, and when he said that he looked at Anulka like a wolf at a lamb, he told the truth.
But nobody paid attention to it, even the timid Anulka did not take his words to heart because the Bohemian was so near that her stirrup touched his, and he looked ahead with such a brave air that he seemed to want to challenge the very devil. Behind the tall pine trees where the undergrowth began, the thickets were impassable.
Then Jagienka smiled that all of them took the pitch-burner to be the devil, and he thought them to be the same. Anulka and Sieciechowa laughed at Macko's words, when he said: "Your eyes are not yet dry from weeping for Hlawa; now you are laughing?" The Bohemian looked at the girl, he observed her eyelids which were still moist, then he asked: "Did you cry for me?"
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