"Rebecca, I fear, teaches you to forget that you are still a child." "Do not scold her," said the old man.

"She is a good girl." "It is Anton that forgets that nature is making Ruth a young woman," said Rebecca.
"I do not want to be a young woman a bit before uncle Anton likes it," said Ruth.

"I don't mind waiting ever so long for him.

When he is married he will not care what I am." "If that be so, you may be a woman very soon," said Rebecca.
"That is more than you know," said Anton, turning very sharply on her.
"What do you know of my marriage, or when it will be ?" "Are you scolding her too ?" said the elder Trendellsohn.
"Nay, father; let him do so," said Rebecca.

"He has known me long enough to scold me if he thinks that I deserve it.