But she had on her head, now as then, that peculiar Hungarian hat which looks almost like a coronet in front, and gives an aspect to the girl who wears it half defiant and half attractive; and there were there, of course, the long, glossy, black curls, and the dark-blue eyes, and the turn of the face, which was so completely Jewish in its hard, bold, almost repellant beauty.

Nina had said that she liked the Jews, but when the words were spoken she remembered that they might be open to misconstruction, and she blushed.

The same idea occurred to Rebecca, but she scorned to take advantage of even a successful rival on such a point as that.

She would not twit Nina by any hint that this assumed liking for the Jews was simply a special predilection for one Jew in particular.

"We are not ungrateful to you for coming among us and knowing us," said Rebecca.
Then there was a slight pause, for Nina hardly knew what to say to her visitor.