So much she had learned from Ziska; and so much, at any rate, she was bound to make known to her lover.

And, moreover, since she had seen him she had told all her relatives of her engagement.

They all knew now that she loved the Jew, and that she had resolved to marry him; and of this also it was her duty to give him tidings.

The result of her communication to her father and her relatives in the Windberg-gasse had been by no means so terrible as she had anticipated.

The heavens and the earth had not as yet shown any symptoms of coming together.