She could not claim to have known her lover from so early a date as Rebecca Loth had done, who had been, as she said, born in the arms of his family.

But what of that?
Men do not always love best those women whom they have known the longest.
Anton Trendellsohn had known her long enough to find that he loved her best.

Why then should this Jewish girl come to her and throw in her teeth the shortness of her intimacy with the man who was to be her husband?
If she, Nina, had also been a Jewess, Rebecca Loth would not then have spoken in such a way.

As she thought of this she turned her face away from the stranger, and looked out among the sparrows who were still pecking among the dust in the court.

She had told Rebecca at the beginning of their interview that she would be delighted to find a friend in a Jewess, but now she felt sorry that the girl had come to her.