WHO IT WAS THAT RECOGNIZED FATIA NEGRA The events at the Mikalai _csarda_ considerably upset Hatszegi.

He returned home very sulky and was unusually ungracious towards Henrietta.
There were several violent scenes between them, in the course of which the baron twitted his wife with having betrayed him and hinted that it was all in consequence of her own and her brother's bad conduct that she had been disinherited by her grandfather.

He revealed to her that he knew everything.

He was well aware, he said, that in her girlhood she had had a rascally young attorney as a lover and had thereby incurred her grandfather's anger.
Henrietta, poor thing, had not the spirit to answer him back: "If you knew this, why did you marry me?
Why did you not leave me then to him with whom I should have been happy if poor ?" She could only reply with tears.

She trembled before him while she loathed him.
And yet how dependent she was on him.
She was well aware now of what her brother was accused, and never doubted for a moment what she ought to do.