"Now I see what you want.

Old Hekt knows men, and she warned me." "Who is Hekt, and what can she know of me ?" "She told me that the time would come when a man would try to make friends with me.

He would look into my eyes, and if mine met his, then he would ask to kiss me.

But I must refuse him, because if I liked him to kiss me he would seize my soul, and take it from me, and I must wander, like the restless ghosts, which the abyss rejects, and the storm whirls before it, and the sea will not cover, and the sky will not receive, soulless to the end of my days.

Go away--for I cannot refuse you the kiss, and yet I would not wander restless, and without a soul!" "Is the old woman who told you that a good woman ?" asked Rameri.
Uarda shook her head.
"She cannot be good," cried the prince.