I am--I am your own; but yet I will declare that he has never wronged you." "And I should be more to you than he is." "You are more--you are everything to me; but, still, I know that he has never wronged you." Then the Jew paused again, still walking onwards through the dark colonnade with her hand upon his arm.

They walked in silence the whole side of the large square.

Nina waiting patiently to hear what would come next, and Trendellsohn considering what words he would use.

He did suspect her father, and it was needful to his purpose that he should tell her so; and it was needful also, as he thought, that she should be made to understand that in her loyalty and truth to him she must give up her father, or even suspect her father, if his purpose required that she should do so.

Though she were still a Christian herself, she must teach herself to look at other Christians, even at those belonging to herself, with Jewish eyes.