"They may say, if they like, that I am no Christian." "But how will it be with him?
Can you ever be happy if you have been the cause of ruin to your husband ?" Nina was again silent for a while, sitting with her face turned altogether away from the Jewess.

Then she rose suddenly from her chair, and, facing round almost fiercely upon the other girl, asked a question, which came from the fulness of her heart, "And you--you yourself, what is it that you intend to do?
Do you wish to marry him ?" "I do," said Rebecca, bearing Nina's gaze without dropping her own eyes for a moment.

"I do.

I do wish to be the wife of Anton Trendellsohn." "Then you shall never have your wish--never.

He loves me, and me only.
Ask him, and he will tell you so." "I have asked him, and he has told me so." There was something so serious, so sad, and so determined in the manner of the young Jewess, that it almost cowed Nina--almost drove her to yield before her visitor.