But--" "But what?
I suppose young Trendellsohn has been talking to you again about it.

I suppose he suspects me; if so, no doubt, you will suspect me too." "Oh, father! how can you be so cruel ?" "If he thinks the papers are here, it is his own house; let him come and search for them." "He will not do that, I am sure." "What is it he wants, then?
I can't go out to your uncle and make him give them up." "They are, then, with uncle ?" "I suppose so; but how am I to know?
You see how they treat me.

I cannot go to them, and they never come to me--except when that woman comes to scold." "But they can't belong to uncle." "Of course they don't." "Then why should he keep them?
What good can they do him?
When I spoke to Ziska, Ziska said they should be kept, because Trendellsohn is a Jew; but surely a Jew has a right to his own.

We at any rate ought to do what we can for him, Jew as he is, since he lets us live in his house." The slight touch of irony which Nina had thrown into her voice when she spoke of what was due to her lover even though he was a Jew was not lost upon her father.

"Of course you would take his part against a Christian," he said.
"I take no one's part against anyone," said she, "except so far as right is concerned.