You surely must know it; for why should you have thought me too vile to sing with you if you did not believe that I was a good-for-nothing hussy, and quite ready to do your dead grandmother's bidding?
Everybody, of course, looked down upon us all and thought we must be wicked because we were singers; but you knew better; you made a distinction; for you invited Agne to come to your house and sing with you .-- No, unless you wish to insult me, say no more about my owing the dead lady a debt of gratitude!" Gorgo's eyes fell; but presently she looked up again and said: "You do not know what that poor soul had suffered.

Mary, her son's widow, had been very cruel to her, had done her injuries she could never forgive--so perhaps you are right in your notion; but all the same, my grandmother had a great liking for you--and after all her wish is fulfilled, for Marcus has found you and he loves you, too, if I am not mistaken!" "If you are not mistaken!" retorted Dada.

"The gods forefend!--Yes, we have found each other, we love each other.

Why should I conceal it ?" "And Mary, his mother--what has she to say to it ?" asked Gorgo.
"I do not know," replied Dada abashed.
"But she is his mother, you know!" cried Gorgo severely.

"And he will never--never--marry against her will.