"You did not surely carry this through the streets ?" "I had Shadrach, our boy, with me.

He carried it.

It is not from me, exactly; though I have been so glad to come with it." "And who sent it ?" said Nina, quickly, with her fingers trembling on its lid.

If Anton had thought to send anything to her, that anything should suffice.
"It was Rebecca Loth who thought of it, and who asked me to come," said Ruth.
Then Nina drew back her fingers as though they were burned, and walked away from the table with quick angry steps.

"Why should Rebecca Loth send anything to me ?" she said.