7/29 I know Rapinsky, who deals with us often. There is your mother's necklace." "I am sorry for this, Anton." "Why sorry ?" "We are so poor that I shall be driven to take it elsewhere again. I cannot keep such a thing in the house while father wants. But better he should want than--" "Than what, Nina ?" "There would be something like cheating in borrowing money on the same thing twice." "Then put it by, and I will be your lender." "No; I will not borrow from you. You are the only one in the world that I could never repay. |