The little yellow one there is afraid of me, as are all of you.

That is woman's greatest power, although she is so weak and gentle, men are still afraid of her just because they are so foolish that they cannot understand her.

To them after a million years she still remains the Unknown and to us all the Unknown is also the awful.

Do you remember the proverb of the Romans that says it well and briefly ?" I nodded, for it was one of the Latin tags that my father had taught me.
"Good.

Well, he is a little wild man, is he not, nearer to the apes from whose race our bodies come?
But do you know that, Allan ?" I nodded again, and said, "There are disputes upon the point, Ayesha." "Yes, they had begun in my day and we will discuss them later.