"What, Nina! is that you ?" said Ziska, taking her hand before she knew how to refuse it to him.
"Yes; it is I," said Nina.
"What are you doing here ?" "Why should I not be in the Grosser Ring as well as another?
It is open to rich and poor." "So is Rapinsky's shop; but poor people do not generally have much to do there." Rapinsky was the name of the jeweller who had advanced the money to Nina.
"No, not much," said Nina.

"What little they have to sell is soon sold." "And have you been selling anything ?" "Nothing of yours, Ziska." "But have you been selling anything ?" "Why do you ask me?
What business is it of yours ?" "They say that Anton Trendellsohn, the Jew, gives you all that you want," said Ziska.
"Then they say lies," said Nina, her eyes flashing fire upon her Christian lover through the gloom of the evening.

"Who says so?
You say so.

No one else would be mean enough to be so false." "All Prague says so." "All Prague! I know what that means.

And did all Prague go to the Jews' quarter last Saturday, to tell Anton Trendellsohn that the paper which he wants, and which is his own, was in father's keeping?
Was it all Prague told that falsehood also ?" There was a scorn in her face as she spoke which distressed Ziska greatly, but which he did not know how to meet or how to answer.