"Because I could call on him," he replied, smiling.
"Well, you do know him," she could not help saying.
"Do I? Who is it? I don't think I do," he exclaimed.
"Well, considering he introduced you to me!"
"Sam!" cried David startled.
"Yes."
"But—" said David, half incredulously, half in surprise. He certainly had never credited Sam with the wisdom to select or the merit to deserve a wife like this.
"But what?" asked Hannah with charming naïveté.
"He said—I—I—at least I think he said—I—I—understood that he introduced me to Miss Solomon, as his intended wife."
Solomon was the name of Malka's first husband, and so of Leah.