"If I do not take you to my 'tan', it will be because I'm dead," he said, and his white teeth showed fiercely.
"I have set you free.

You had better go," she rejoined quietly.
Suddenly he turned at the doorway.

A look of passion burned in his eyes.
His voice became soft and persuasive.

"I would put the past behind me, and be true to you, my girl," he said.

"I shall be chief over all the Romany people when Duke Gabriel dies.