She made you suffer all that he suffered--" "What ?" cried Israel Kafka in a loud and angry tone.
"What I say," returned the other quietly.
"And you did not interfere?
You did not stop her?
No, of course, I forgot that you are a Christian." The Wanderer looked at him in surprise.

It had not struck him that Israel Kafka might be a man of the deepest religious convictions, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, and that what he would resent most would be the fact that in his sleep Unorna had made him play the part and suffer the martyrdom of a convert to Christianity.

This was exactly what took place.

He would have suffered anything at Unorna's hands, and without complaint, even to bodily death, but his wrath rose furiously at the thought that she had been playing with what he held most sacred, that she had forced from his lips the denial of the faith of his people and the confession of the Christian belief, perhaps the very words of the hated Creed.

The modern Hebrew of Western Europe might be indifferent in such a case, as though he had spoken in the delirium of a fever, but the Jew of the less civilised East is a different being, and in some ways a stronger.