14/17 You're an exceptional woman, and it would be a good argument, if you were not in an exceptional position.' 'Owain is the exceptional man, brother.' 'My dear, after all, you have a husband.' 'I have a brother, I have a friend, I have no--I am a man's wife and the mother of his child; I am free, or husband would mean dungeon. Does my brother want an oath from me? 'But "the world's a flood at a dyke for women, and they must keep watch," you've read.' 'But Owain is not our enemy,' said Carinthia, in her deeper tones, expressive of conviction, and not thereby assuring to hear. 'He is a man with men, a child with women. |