But my mistress yonder refused to listen to me.
"'No,' she said, 'that which you have sworn on my behalf and your own must be carried out.

If you will not carry it out, go away, Soa, for I have done with you.' "Then, Deliverer, rather than part with her whom I loved, and whom I had nursed from a babe, I yielded.

And now you stand upon the borders of the country of my people.

Say, are you minded to cross them, Deliverer ?" "What else did I come for, Soa ?" he asked.
"Nay, I know not.

You came out of the folly of your heart, to satisfy the desire of your heart.