"My jest is the true word."

She made a last rally. "Your fortune was made out of slave labour."

"I have given up the slaves."

"You have the fortune."

"I will give it all to you--to have your will with it. Now it is won,
I would give it up and a hundred times as much to hear you say, 'Come to
Skaw Fell again."'

Did he really mean it? She thought he did. And it seemed the only way
out of the difficulty. It broke the impasse.

It was not necessary, however, to spend the future in the way first
suggested to her mind. They discussed all that at Skaw Fell months
later.

Human nature is weak and she has become a slavedriver, after all.
But he is her only slave, and he hugs his bondage.




GLOSSARY

Aiwa, effendi----Yea, noble sir.
Allah----God.