22/35 There has been no girl connected with decent people who has ever so degraded herself. Does your father know of this ?" "Not yet." "Your father knows nothing of it, and you come and tell me that you are engaged--to a Jew!" Madame Zamenoy had so far recovered herself that she was now able to let her anger mount above her misery. "You wicked girl! Why have you come to me with such a story as this ?" "Because it is well that you should know it. I did not like to deceive you, even by secrecy. |