Seriously, Katuti--in nine great events out of ten you women have a hand in the game.

You gave the first impulse to all that is plotting here, and I will confess to you that, regardless of all consequences, I should in a few hours have given up my pretensions to the throne, if that woman Bent-Anat had said 'yes' instead of 'no.'" "You make me believe," said Katuti, "that the weaker sex are gifted with stronger wills than the nobler.

In marrying us you style us, 'the mistress of the house,' and if the elders of the citizens grow infirm, in this country it is not the sons but the daughters that must be their mainstay.

But we women have our weaknesses, and chief of these is curiosity .-- May I ask on what ground Bent-Anat dismissed you ?" "You know so much that you may know all," replied Ani.

"She admitted me to speak to her alone.