CHAPTER TWO
Father Jozsef sat down beside Attila on the wooden seat and for a moment he did not speak and Attila looked at him enquiringly.
Then he said,
“I have a suggestion to make to you, which may at first seem rather strange, but it is one I want you to hear.”
“Then of course I am listening, Father.”
“You have told me your father is ill,” Father Jozsef began, “but he is still a young man. I cannot believe it is impossible for him to be cured, and as you well know he is needed desperately here in Valdina.”
“I am certain it would be just terrible without him,” Attila murmured.
She was thinking again of her stepmother and how she would try to force herself upon the throne.
“What I am suggesting,” Father Jozsef continued, “is that you and I should go on a pilgrimage.”
Attila look
