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 pected it from you,” he said angrily, with teeth clenched.

“You see, Jiří, there in that house,” she spoke with difficulty, “then  you know  that night when you went away  you only gave me your hand  then I was thankful to you  with all my heart”

Lucy stopped. Something told her that she had intended to tell him something else,—what it was, she did not know herself,—she only motioned with her hand:

“I do not blame you for anything fate has decided otherwise ” and again she was silent.

“God be with you,” she said half aloud, as she quickly took up her hat.

Jiří saw the situation in a flash: she would actually go away, he had driven her away. A touch of pity passed through his soul, and again there flashed through his mind: the elections the future career  the ýs Gazette  the tax collector’s