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Her little Dodi had the croup, the most dangerous of all childish maladies, against which all the skill of the physician is often powerless. Mortally terrified, Noémi rushed to her child. The face of the innocent creature was quite changed. It was not crying this disease has no characteristic cry, but so much the more dreadful is the suffering.
Timéa believed Michael had business which obliged him to spend the summer away from home: at that season the management of his estates, of his building and export contracts, demanded all his attention. From autumn to spring he deceived Timéa, from spring to autumn he deceived Noémi. He could not be called inconsistent. This time he left the island earlier than in other years.
Oh, why had Michael not done as Noémi said if only three feet of earth lay between them! Noémi was no feeble woman; she had grown up in the desert and learned to trust in herself; the enervating influences of the outer world had never affected her mind. The wolf knows how to defend her lair against the dogs with claws and teeth.
And yet more surely I know that Noémi will not marry you, if you were the only man on God's earth." "Ha! ha! leave that to me I am not afraid." "Just as you like; but now, once for all, you shall never have my splendid nut-trees, if Noah's ark was to be built of them. One single tree I will give you, and that you can use for the end you will come to sooner or later.
Presently Timar was back again with Euthemio and Timéa, and now a young girl appeared, whom the housewife called Noemi. Before supper was over, the growling of the dog announced a new arrival, and a man of youthful appearance, who introduced himself as Theodor Krisstyan, an old friend of the lady of the house, whom he called Madame Therese, entered and made himself quickly at home.
Michael did so too, and looked in her eyes. "You want to ask me something?" he said. The girl thought awhile, then she said, "No; nothing." Timar had learned to read her eyes; he guessed her thoughts. Noémi wanted to ask him, "Tell me, my beloved, my all; what has become of the white-faced girl who once came with you to the island, and was called Timéa?"
We have made him a little house out in the garden." Poor thing, she told the truth. "You are very good, Therese. Go to Dodi and send Noémi to me. I will not ask her again to bring him to me. Poor Noémi! But as soon as I can get up and go out, you will let me go to him, won't you?" "Yes, Michael." By this pious fraud it was possible to satisfy him till he was out of bed and on the road to recovery.
"The one who was following him, who went away with him!" Noemi had not even noticed this person. With a convulsive laugh Jeanne nearly suffocated her in a close embrace. On his way down from the villa to the gate, Don Clemente asked himself with secret anxiety: "Did he recognise her, or not? And if he did, what impression did she make?"
Therese said, smiling, "You poor orphan! you never dreamed of this, did you?" and turned away to hide her tears. "And am I to have no greeting?" said Noémi, with charming anger. Michael turned to her, still on his knees. He spoke not a word, only pressed her hand to his lips and hid his face silently in her lap. He was dumb as long as the child slept.
I had a vague sort of idea that a woman who was not very pretty must be unhappy and feel the inward pang of having missed her fate. I was oftener, therefore, with her than with Noémi, because I saw that she was melancholy. So I allowed my first love to go off at a tangent, just as, later in life, I did in politics, and in a very bungling sort of way.
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