"Speak, then, and I will listen; but be quick."
"You want, of course, to be made right about those houses?"
"My father, to whom they belong, wishes to be made right, as you call it."
"It is all the same thing. Now, look here. The truth is this. Everything shall be settled for you, and the whole thing given up regularly into your hands, if you will only give over about Nina Balatka."
"But I will not give over about Nina Balatka. Am I to be bribed out of my love by an offer of that which is already mine own? But that you are in my father's house, I would be wrathful with you for making me such an offer."
"Why should you seek a Christian wife, with such maidens among you as her whom I saw at the door?"
"Do not mind the maiden whom you saw at the door. She is nothing to you."
"No; she is nothing to me. Of course, the lady is nothing to me. If I were to come here looking for her, you would be angry, and would bid me seek for beauty among my own people. Would you not do so? Answer me now."
"Like enough. Rebecca Loth has many friends who would take her part."
"And why should we not take Nina's part — we who are her friends?"