"To be jilted by a Jew, Lotta! Think of that." "I should drown myself," said Lotta Luxa.

And then they both were gone.
The idea that the Jew might jilt her disturbed Nina more than all her aunt's anger, or than any threats as to the penalties she might have to encounter in the next world.

She felt a certain delight, an inward satisfaction, in giving up everything for her Jew lover--a satisfaction which was the more intense, the more absolute was the rejection and the more crushing the scorn which she encountered on his behalf from her own people.

But to encounter this rejection and scorn, and then to be thrown over by the Jew, was more than she could endure.

And would it, could it, be so?
She sat down to think of it; and as she thought of it terrible fears came upon her.