She'll be down here again directly;" and Ziska with his head nodded at the chair in which his mother was wont to sit.
Nina, whose mind was quite full of her business, was determined to go to work at once.

"I'm glad to have you alone for a moment, Ziska," she said.
"And so am I very glad; only I wish I had not taken physic, it makes one so uncomfortable." At this moment Nina had in her heart no charity towards her cousin, and did not care for his discomfort.

"Ziska," she said, "Anton Trendellsohn wants to have the papers about the houses in the Kleinseite.

He says that they are his, and you have them." Ziska hated Anton Trendellsohn, hardly knowing why he hated him.

"If Trendellsohn wants anything of us," said he, "why does he not come to the office?
He knows where to find us." "Yes, Ziska, he knows where to find you; but, as he says, he has no business with you--no business as to which he can make a demand.