"Whom in the world, then?"
"Well, dear brother, no one but yourself."
"But for heaven's sake, Lori--the pink note?"
"Came from me!"
"It is an unseemly jest," said Reising, angrily, "and it has already caused me disagreeable embarrassment!"
"It is no joke."
"But we can talk much more comfortably at home."
"That is just what we cannot do; Euphrasia listens to every word."
"She is indeed jealous!"
"No, you do my good sister injustice. She is not at all jealous, only avaricious, uncommonly avaricious. That alone is why she peeps through the keyholes, and listens at every door; she is afraid you might in an unguarded moment open your sesame, and that your treasures might also some day give pleasures to others."