They came in one by one, twelve of them, most of them sleepy and in a bad temper, and sat down at the large table. Everyone was dressed in shooting clothes and though no one was dressed exactly alike it was clear that they followed two distinct fashions. The first was the traditional Austrian Waldmann style which with one exception was followed by all the older men, including the host, Kanizsay and Lubianszky: the exception was Szent-Gyorgyi. These all wore jackets of grey loden cloth with green lapels, deerhorn buttons, green waistcoats, all old and patched with leather. So ancient and worn were their clothes that they might have been taken for superior Jäger, or forest guards, which indeed would have pleased them immensely as it would have given the impression that they had spent all their lives in the woods, that being their only occupation. Among the young, Duke Peter belonged to this school, though he was by no means orthodox, being in shades of slate-grey and moss-green and everything he wore was new, in itself a heresy.
