32/35 The head of the police might do something, if we could get at him." "She might be taken away." "Where could they take her ?" asked Lotta. "No; they could not take her anywhere." "Not into a convent--out of the way somewhere in Italy ?" "Oh, heaven, no! They are afraid of that sort of thing now. All Prague would know of it, and would talk; and the Jews would be stronger than the priests; and the English people would hear of it, and there would be the very mischief." "The times have come to be very bad, Lotta." "That's as may be," said Lotta as though she had her doubts upon the subject. |