"Where to-day could there be darkness?"
And then again they asked him:
"Meir, where have you been?"
Meir did not answer. His face expressed timidity and inward hesitation. At that moment one of the girls—the same who had introduced the old grand mother—the girl with the swarthy face and dark, frolicsome eyes, exclaimed mirthfully, clapping her hands:
"I know where it is dark to-day!"
All looks were directed toward her, and all lips asked:
"Where?"
Under the influence of the attracted attention, Lija blushed, and answered softly, with a certain amount of bashfulness:
"In the hut of Abel Karaim, standing on the hill of the Karaites."
"Meir, have you visited Karaites?"