It was just as idle to think of the Jews.

If the synagogue knew nothing of this burial, no Jew in the Mellah would be found so poor that he would have need to know more.

And of Christians of any sort or condition there were none in all Tetuan.
The gall of Israel's heart rose to his throat.

Was he to be left alone with his dead wife?
Did his enemies wish to see him howk out her grave with his own hands?
Or did they expect him to come to them with bowed forehead and bended knee?
Either way their reckoning was a mistake.
They might leave him terribly and awfully alone--alone in his hour of mourning even as they had left him alone in his hour of rejoicing, when he had married the dear soul who was dead.

But his strength and energy they should not crush: his vital and intellectual force they should not wither away.