Now, it seems to me that when things come to such a pass between a
Gentile husband and his Jewish wife, the results are bound to be
strange, unusual, and anything but agreeable. It is all something
like--let me see--something like what is written in the Bible about
the confusion of tongues, when one could not understand the speech
of his fellow. Indeed, had Peter known that it was Anna who sent me
to him, he would have resented it surely, and would have thought
that she cared more for his inheritance than she cared for him.
And Peter died, after a long illness.
Then Anna had to go through an ordeal she had not yet experienced in
her life of apostasy: she had to go through the ceremony of mourning
according to the prescribed rules. And her fears regarding the
house turned out to have been but too well founded. The village
elder, in the name of the rest of the relatives, disputed Peter's
title to the property. Anna was given a small sum of money, and the
whole piece of property was deeded over to Serge Ivanovich. As to
Anna and Marusya, they had to be satisfied with the little money
they received.
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