When Alte first went to school in London, the Head Mistress said, "What's your name ?" The little "old 'un" had not sufficient English to understand the question, but she remembered that the Head Mistress had made the same sounds to the preceding applicant, and, where some little girls would have put their pinafores to their eyes and cried, Fanny showed herself full of resource.

As the last little girl, though patently awe-struck, had come off with flying colors, merely by whimpering "Fanny Belcovitch," Alte imitated these sounds as well as she was able.
"Fanny Belcovitch, did you say ?" said the Head Mistress, pausing with arrested pen.
Alte nodded her flaxen poll vigorously.
"Fanny Belcovitch," she repeated, getting the syllables better on a second hearing.
The Head Mistress turned to an assistant.
"Isn't it astonishing how names repeat themselves?
Two girls, one after the other, both with exactly the same name." They were used to coincidences in the school, where, by reason of the tribal relationship of the pupils, there was a great run on some half-a-dozen names.

Mr.Kosminski took several years to understand that Alte had disowned him.

When it dawned upon him he was not angry, and acquiesced in his fate.

It was the only domestic detail in which he had allowed himself to be led by his children.