"So we just wash out!" he had said.
She said:
"Would you take this bit of parchment. . . . I got a little Jew girl to write on it in Hebrew:" It's "God bless you and keep you: God watch over you at your goings out and at . . ."
He tucked it into his breast pocket.
"The talismanic passage," he said. "Of course I'll wear it. . . ."
She said:
"If we could wash out this afternoon. . . . It would make it easier to bear. . . . Your poor mother, you know, she was dying when we last . . ."
He said:
"You remember that . . . Even then you . . . And if I hadn't gone to Lobscheid. . ."
She said: