You are one of us now.

You can easily find another who will take him." Almah threw a piteous glance at me and said nothing.
"I," said Layelah, "will take him." She spoke these words with an air of magnanimity, as though putting it in the light of a favor to Almah; but Almah did not make any reply, and after some silence Layelah spoke of something else.
Not long after we were alone together, and Layelah returned to the subject.

She referred to Almah's want of sympathy with the manners of the Kosekin, and asserted that she ought to aim after a separation.
"I love her," said I, with great warmth, "and will never give her up." "But she must give you up; it is the woman's place to take the first step.

I should be willing to take you." As Layelah said this she looked at me very earnestly, as if anxious to see how I accepted this offer.

It was for me a most embarrassing moment.