Her aunt, indeed, had been very angry; and Lotta Luxa and Souchey had told her that such a marriage would not be allowed.

Ziska, too, had said some sharp words; and her father, for the first day or two, had expostulated.

But the threats had been weak threats, and she did not find herself to be annihilated--indeed, hardly to be oppressed--by the scolding of any of them.

What the priest might say she had not yet experienced; but opposition from other quarters had not as yet come upon her in any form that was not endurable.

Her aunt had intended to consume her with wrath, but Nina had not found herself to be consumed.