CHAPTER III

On the third day after Nina's visit to her aunt, Ziska Zamenoy came across to the Kleinseite on a visit to old Balatka. In the mean time Nina had told the story of her love to her father, and the effect on Balatka had simply been that he had not got out of his bed since. For himself he would have cared, perhaps, but little as to the Jewish marriage, had he not known that those belonging to him would have cared so much. He had no strong religious prejudice of his own, nor indeed had he strong feeling of any kind. He loved his daughter, and wished her well; but even for her he had been unable to exert himself in his younger days, and now simply expected from her hands all the comfort which remained to him in this world. The priest he knew would attack him, and to the priest he would be able to make no answer. But to Trendellsohn, Jew as he was, he would trust in worldly matters, rather than to the Zamenoys; and were it not that he feared the Zamenoys, and could not escape from his close connection with them, he would have been half inclined to let the girl marry the Jew. Souchey, indeed, had frightened him on the subject when it had first been mentioned to him; and Nina, coming with her own assurance so quickly after Souchey's suspicion, had upset him; but his feeling in regard to Nina had none of that bitter anger, no touch of that abhorrence which animated the breast of his sister-in-law. When Ziska came to him he was alone in his bedroom. Ziska had heard the news, as had all the household in the Windberg-gasse, and had come over to his uncle's house to see what he could do, by his own diplomacy, to put an end to an engagement which was to him doubly calamitous. "Uncle Josef," he said, sitting by the old man's bed, "have you heard what Nina is doing?"

Now, provide a numbered list of answers to these questions:

1. who had Nina visited?
2. who is her dad?
3. did he love his daughter?
4. Did the News Nina give him have a positive effect?
5. what happened?
6. where did Ziska go?
7. who would attack Balatka?
8. would he be able to explain things to the priest?
9. what was the person Nina wanted to marry?
10. who was it because of that he greed to the relationship?
11. what did they do to him?
12. was he able to leave them?
13. who had warned him about the marriage before Nina?
14. was he with anyone when Ziska came?
15. what Balatka expect from Nina?
16. did everybody know what was going on?
17. where was the household?
18. what did he call his uncle?
19. what did he want to help with?
20. why?
1. her aunt,
2. Balatka
3. yes
4. no
5. he had not got out of his bed since.
6. Kleinseite
7. The priest he knew
8. no
9. Jewish
10. the Zamenoys
11. he feared them
12. no
13. Souchey,
14. no
15. all the comfort which remained to him
16. Ziska had heard the news, as had all the household
17. Windberg-gasse,
18. Josef
19. put an end to an engagement
20. it was doubly calamitous to him.