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Updated: June 14, 2025
On the day of the installation, Lady Szentirmay and Madame Kárpáthy drove over to the county town where lodgings had been provided for the former's husband as Governor-General, at the town-hall. Szentirmay wished his installation to be conducted with as little pomp and ceremony as possible.
"This admirable lady is certainly one of those in whom your ladyship can repose your confidence without running the risk of being deceived." Fanny read the name indicated "Flora Eszéky Szentirmay." "What is this lady like?" she inquired of the old man. "Verily, I should have need of very great eloquence to describe her to you worthily. She is rich in all the virtues one looks for in a woman.
Madame Kárpáthy had promised her friend to share her labours as hostess on the occasion of the feast in honour of her husband's installation as Lord-Lieutenant, just as Lady Szentirmay had shared hers before the fox-hunt. She had vainly tortured her brain for a whole fortnight in order that she might find an excuse to release her from her promise, and not one could she find.
That was Rudolf Szentirmay, one of the noblest and most patriotic of the younger noblemen of Hungary, already happily married to the lady of his choice, the Countess Flora. He had no thought of her whatever. But she had got the idea into her head that he was her benefactor, and nobody could drive it out again.
Suddenly the rumble of a carriage was audible on the high-road, and Kárpáthy, looking over the fence, exclaimed "Look, look! those are the Szentirmay horses!" Fanny almost collapsed. The Squire felt her arm tremble. "I trod on a snail," said his wife, turning pale. "You silly thing, what's there to be afraid of? I knew that Flora would come here to seek you out.
And you young fellows there, watch over my wife as if she were the light of your eyes." "Oh, we'll look after her!" replied Mike Kis, twirling his moustache. "And I, also, will look after her," cried Lady Szentirmay, with a strong emphasis on the word I; for she had observed that Kárpáthy's good-natured appeal had somewhat confused his wife.
Thus the first week which Fanny spent at Szentirmay Castle was by no means so very painful, and after that Rudolf had to go to the capital from whence he was only to return on the day before the installation. Meanwhile the two ladies, with the utmost forethought, were arranging everything for the approaching festivities, and whatever one of them forgot was sure to occur to the other.
Only with the greatest difficulty did Lady Szentirmay succeed in preventing Fanny from flinging herself at her feet; the poor girl had to be content with hiding her head in Flora's breast and sobbing; and when she had wept there to her heart's content, then only did she feel happy, oh so happy!
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