"Why?" asked Yosef, looking him in the eyes.
"Oh, so!"
"Speak clearly."
"She seems to love thee."
Yosef's face flushed; he knew Lula's feeling, but that information from the lips of another startled him. It filled his breast with sweetness and as it were with despair together with the sweetness.
"Who told thee that?" asked he.
"Malinka; she tells me everything."
"Then tell Lula that I marry another from inclination and duty."
"Amen!" concluded Augustinovich.