Together with Otter and the others she had been listening to the colloquy in silence, and now spoke for the first time.
"Peter," she said gently, "when you and your companions were in the hands of the Yellow Devil and about to be sold as slaves, who was it that rescued you ?" "The Deliverer, Shepherdess." "Yes.

And now do my ears betray me, or do I hear you say that you and your brethren, who with many another were saved from shame and toil by the Deliverer, are about to leave him in his hour of danger ?" "You have heard aright, Shepherdess," the man answered sadly.
"It is well, Peter.

Go, children of Mavoom, my father, who can desert me in my need.

For learn, Peter, that where you fear to tread, there I, a white woman, will pass alone with the Deliverer.

Go, children of my father, and may peace go with you.