And then she learnt that not only this _csarda_ but the whole of the surrounding _puszta_ also was the property of his lordship, for which the people who lived upon it paid very little rent, inasmuch as his lordship did not look upon it as a source of income but chiefly valued it on account of its numerous reedy lakes where he was wont every year to hunt water-fowl and beavers on a grand scale.

Moreover, from this spot to his own house, a good two days' journey by foot, everything belonged to his lordship's estate.

Nay, his lordship, if he liked, could traverse the whole kingdom from Deva to Pest, and be on his own property the whole time, it was only like moving from one of his houses to another.
The next day the Hungarian plain came to an end and the Transylvanian Alps drew nearer and nearer.

In the evening they descended into a little mining town whose forges and furnaces were all illuminated in honour of the arriving guests.

Henrietta then learnt that this mining town also belonged to her husband.
On the third day, quite early in the morning, they crossed the Transylvanian frontier.