On the third day after Nina's visit to her aunt, Ziska Zamenoy came across to the Kleinseite on a visit to old Balatka.

In the mean time Nina had told the story of her love to her father, and the effect on Balatka had simply been that he had not got out of his bed since.

For himself he would have cared, perhaps, but little as to the Jewish marriage, had he not known that those belonging to him would have cared so much.

He had no strong religious prejudice of his own, nor indeed had he strong feeling of any kind.

He loved his daughter, and wished her well; but even for her he had been unable to exert himself in his younger days, and now simply expected from her hands all the comfort which remained to him in this world.