I can take you there, and he will meet you with open arms." "What, this evening ?" cried Dada, and the blue veins swelled on her white forehead.

"You hateful, brown serpent! Did Gorgo teach you such things as this?
It is horrible, disgraceful, sickening!" So base a proposal was the last thing she would ever have expected from Marcus--of all men in the world, Marcus, whom she had imagined so good and pure! She could not believe it; and as her glance met the cunning glitter of the Egyptian's eyes her own sparkled keenly, and she exclaimed with a vehemence and decision which her attendant had never suspected in her: "It is deceit and falsehood from beginning to end! Go, woman, I will hear no more of it.

Why should Marcus have come to you since yesterday if he does not know where I am?
You are silent--you will not say ?...

Oh! I understand it all.

He--I know he would never have ventured it.