Just so! Now _he_ wanted her to close! She rushed--in a manner somewhat recalling the useful animal just mentioned by herself, when it is trying to get loose--into the shop and back again.
If Nikolai thought that she would give up and go bankrupt to be jeered at by everybody, when she only needed to go down and borrow that little of Ludvig, he was very much mistaken.
Barbara was quite flushed.
She would not let herself be ruined a second time for Nikolai's sake.

It was quite enough that he had injured her welfare once before in this world.

Yes, he need not sit and look at her with open mouth.

What else was she turned out of the Veyergangs' house for, where she had been so important, if it was not because Nikolai had lifted his hand against the Consul-General's Ludvig.

Oh yes, he might wonder as much as he liked, but that was why she had been driven out helpless into the world, from comfortable circumstances.