– “Yes, ma’am, yes, ’said Emma on the absurd hypothesis of her husband, can you love him all you like, I realize you’ve fallen for him, and he with you. That’s not bad: in Turkey spend well, and can be as honest as we, the Turks, all a matter of habit, as Körner says: everything is conventional. “

– “Yes, ma’am, I love him, why deny it, and he to me. But you also esteem, despite this geniazo who say that you have. Esteem and are respected. You’ll see what good friends do. Why not? You do not know what they are artists, which is to live for art, and scorning the pettiness of village life and the moral power. Moral Brave! Everyone should love all-you to me, I you, your husband both, both to her husband …. The world, the sad life finite, there must be more than love, love music, everything else is wasting time …».

“That dialogue is hypothetical-Bonis was thinking, ‘was nonsense, yes … and yet … all … Why was not to be? He had read that the ancient patriarchs had several wives, Abraham, without going any further …». The idea of ​​Abraham Sara brought him the barren … his wife … “Isaac!” Said a voice like an explosion in the brain …. Emma was Sarah …, Serafina, Agar …. Ismael missing, it was unlikely, given the customs of Serafina, and Isaac … Isaac! Who knew? Why would you say the heart … remember Sara, hope? Twice that night, that he should devote to emotions so different, filled his soul with the love of his Isaac … your child …. She had fever did not know where, maybe I was going crazy, first compared with the Virgin now Abraham … and despite all this nonsense, intimate hope, superstitious, seized him, he dominated.