The slave-girl finished her work, and after looking for a while curiously at Taminah, pushed her way through the dense thicket back to the courtyard.

Round Taminah there was now a complete solitude.

She threw herself down on the ground, and hid her face in her hands.

Now when so close she had no courage to see Nina.

At every burst of louder voices from the courtyard she shivered in the fear of hearing Nina's voice.