There are things one knows as a
matter of course. I remember his birthday always."
"It has been a short always."
"No, not so short. Two years is not a short time to know a friend."
"But he has not been betrothed to you for two years?"
"No; not betrothed to me."
"Nor has he loved you so long; nor you him?"
"For him, I can only speak of the time when he first told me so."
"And that was but the other day--but the other day, as I count the
time." To this Nina made no answer. She could not claim to have known
her lover from so early a date as Rebecca Loth had done, who had been,
as she said, born in the arms of his family. But what of that? Men
do not always love best those women whom they have known the longest.
Anton Trendellsohn had known her long enough to find that he loved her
best. Why then should this Jewish girl come to her and throw in her
teeth the shortness of her intimacy with the man who was to be her
husband? If she, Nina, had also been a Jewess, Rebecca Loth would not
then have spoken in such a way.
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