When Nina returned to her father after Ziska's departure, a very few words made everything clear between them.

"I would not have him if there was not another man in the world," Nina had said.

"He thinks that it is only Anton Trendellsohn that prevents it, but he knows nothing about what a girl feels.

He thinks that because we are poor I am to be bought, this way or that way, by a little money.

Is that a man, father, that any girl can love ?" Then the father had confessed his receipt of the bank-notes from Ziska, and we already know to what result that confession had led.
Till she had delivered her packet into the hands of Lotta Luxa, she maintained her spirits by the excitement of the thing she was doing.
Though she should die in the streets of hunger, she would take no money from Ziska Zamenoy.