What if, after all, he were unable to read the simple tablets of this girl's mind--tablets which he had regarded as being altogether in his own keeping?
He went forth for a while, walking slowly through the streets, as he thought of this, wandering without an object, but turning over in his mind his father's words.

He knew that his father was anxious to prevent his marriage.

He knew that every Jew around him--for now the Jews around him had all heard of it--was keenly anxious to prevent so great a disgrace.

He knew all that his father had threatened, and he was well aware how complete was his father's power.

But he could stand against all that, if only Nina were true to him.