And you tortured him with your will until his individuality fell into yours, and spoke your words." Unorna's head sank a little and she covered her eyes.

The truth of what he said flashed upon her suddenly and unexpectedly, bringing with it the doubt which had left her at the moment when the sleeper had spoken.

She could not hide her discomfiture and Keyork Arabian saw his advantage.
"And for what ?" he asked, beginning to pace the broad room.

"To know whether a man will love you or not! You seem to have forgotten what you are.

Is not such a poor and foolish thing as love at the command of those who can say to the soul, be this, or be that, and who are obeyed?
Have you found a second Keyork Arabian, over whom your eyes have no power--neither the one nor the other ?" He laughed rather brutally at the thought of her greatest physical peculiarity, but then suddenly stopped short.