Her vivid mind pictured all this to her, filling her full with every incident of the insult she had endured.No.There must be an end of it now.

If she could see her aunt that moment, or Lotta, or even Ziska, she would tell them that it should be so.

She would say nothing to Anton--no, not a word again, though both might live for an eternity; but she would write a line to Rebecca Loth, and tell the Jewess that the Jew was now free to marry whom he would among his own people.

And some of the words that she thought would be fitting for such a letter occurred to her as she sat there.

"I know now that a Jew and a Christian ought not to love each other as we loved.