Enter Rosa.
Rafael.
Will you be so good as to say no more about Rosa! If a man—[He checks himself.] Let me tell you what she is to me——
Rosa.
Rafael, Rafael!
Rebecca.
Oh! She calls you Rafael! She was listening all the time! What they say is true: you thrust your shameful doings in my face! I shall tell my father—I shall tell everyone; they will stone you from the Ghetto! You tried to make a fool of me; and you—you——
[She bursts into tears. Exit.
Rafael.
And now I'm going to break my poor old father's heart. I am going to tell him that you and I were married by the Civil Authority beyond the Ghetto, that we are one and indivisible. Poor old man! I am not without love for my father, you know. He will think that I am lost for ever; he will turn me away from his door with a curse on his lips; and then, when we are gone, he'll sink down in his chair and weep; a broken life, an old age come to nothing! And he may die at any moment—it may kill him—and he might have died and never have known it.