But when she should be alone in the old house, with the corpse lying on the bed, would Anton Trendellsohn come to her then?
He did not come to her now, though he knew of her father's illness.

She sent Souchey to the Jews' quarter to tell the sad news--not to him, but to old Trendellsohn.

"For the sake of the property it is right that he should know," Nina said to herself, excusing to herself on this plea her weakness in sending any message to the house of Anton Trendellsohn till he should have come and asked her pardon.

But even after this he came not.

She listened to every footstep that entered the courtyard.
She could not keep herself from going to the window, and from looking into the square.