"You have said, 'Itzig, I need you no longer; you may go;' but I shall go when it suits me, not when it suits you." "You are a bold man," cried Ehrenthal.

"I forbid you to speak thus to me.

Who are you, young Itzig ?" "I am one who knows your whole business, who can ruin you if he will, and one who means kindly toward you, better than you do toward yourself; and, therefore, when I come to the office the day after to-morrow, you will say, 'Good morning, Itzig.' Do you understand me now, Mr.
Ehrenthal ?" and, seizing his cap, he hurried into the street, where his suppressed wrath broke out into a flame, and, gesticulating wildly, he muttered threatening words.

And so did Ehrenthal alone in the office.
The baron returned to his daughter, threw himself heavily down on the sofa, and scarcely heard her loving words.

There was nothing to detain him in town but the dread of communicating this intelligence to his wife.