Again what was to be done?
They could take her back to Scutari, whence they had come, in the hope of finding a Roman Catholic sisterhood.

The proposal evoked but lukewarm enthusiasm.
Liosha being convinced that they would turn her into a nun--the last avocation in the world she desired to adopt.

Her simple idea was to go out to America, like her father, return with many bags of gold and devote her life to the linked sweetness of a gradual extermination of her enemies.

When asked how she would manage to amass the gold she replied that she would work in the packing-houses like her mother.

But how, they asked, would she get the money to take her to Chicago?
"It must come from you!" she said.