As Forella dismounted from Gyõrgy at the front door of the house, she said to Thomas, who had escorted her on her ride,
“Thank you very much, that was very enjoyable.”
“I enjoyed it too, my Lady,” Thomas replied.
As he rode off to the stables, he took off his cap and Forella, walking into the house, thought what a nice man he was.
When she wished to go riding on Gyõrgy and was aware that she must be accompanied by a groom, she had been afraid that he would slow the pace and complain if she rode too far ahead of him.
But to her considerable surprise she found that the stables of The Manor contained a dozen exceptionally fine horses and that Thomas, who was in charge of them, was different from how she expected an ordinary English groom to be.
A good-looking man of about forty, he was,
