"Only that a man told me that his son saw our Daniel pay court to the maiden."
"Where?"
"At the Purim Ball."
"The man is a tool; a youth must dance with some maiden or other."
Miriam came in, fagged out from teaching. Old Hyams dropped from Yiddish into English.
"You are right, he must."
Beenah replied in her slow painful English.
"Would he not have told us?"
Mendel repeated:—"Would he not have told us?"
Each avoided the others eye. Beenah dragged herself about the room, laying Miriam's tea.