But at a
second glance I saw that something had happened, something had become
known, and that he was there to condemn and denounce me.
"You have been out all night," he said. "Can you tell me where you have
been?"
I knew I could not, and though it flashed upon me to say that I had
slept at the house of a friend, I saw that, if he asked who my friend
was, and what, I should be speechless.
The Jew waited for my reply and then said:
"You have given us a name--can you say it is your true and right one?"
Again I made no answer, and after another moment the Jew said:
"Can you deny that you have a child whom you have hidden from our
knowledge?"
I felt myself gasping, but still I did not speak.
"Can you say that it was lawfully born according to your Christian
marriage?"
I felt the colour flushing into my face but I was still silent; and
after a moment in which, as I could see, the stern-natured Jew was
summing me up as a woman of double life and evil character, he said:
"Then it is true? .
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