The little maid by his side is the widow Susannah's daughter.

This garden and the beautiful mansion behind the trees belong to her." "A very handsome property!" said the Arab.
"I should think so indeed!" replied the Memphite.

"The garden goes down to the Nile, and then, what care is taken of it!" "Was it not here that Philommon the corn-merchant lived formerly ?" asked the old man, as though some memories were coming back to him.
"To be sure.

He was Susannah's husband and must have been a man of fifty when he first wooed her.

The little girl is their only child and the richest heiress in the whole province; but she is not altogether grown up though she is sixteen years old--an old man's child, you understand, but a pretty, merry creature, a laughing dove in human form, and so quick and lively.