I need not thy words to bring to my mind how I have slain one sworn friend for thy sake." "Nay," she said, "not for my sake, for thine own folly's sake." He heeded her not, but went on: "And as for this one, I say again of him, if he be not thy devil, then thou meanest him for thy lover.

And now I deem that I will verily slay him, ere he wake again; belike it were his better luck." She said: "I wot not why thou hagglest over the price of that thou wouldest have.

If thou have him along with thee, shall he not be in thy power--as I shall be?
and thou mayst slay him--or me--when thou wilt." "Yea," he said, grimly, "when thou art weary of him.

O art thou not shameless amongst women! Yet must I needs pay thy price, though my honour and the welfare of my life go with it.

Yet how if he have no will to fare with us ?" She laughed and said: "Then shalt thou have him with thee as thy captive and thrall.