On her part, Eunane thrust into my hand the whole bundle as they were, and I was forced myself to erase, by an electro-chemical process which leaves no trace of writing, the words of that selected.

The absence of any mark on the second paper served sufficiently to distinguish the two when, of course without stating from whom I received them, I placed, them in Davilo's hands.
When we were ready to leave the peristyle for the carriage, I observed that Eunane alone was still unveiled, while the others wore their cloaks of down and the thick veils, without which no lady may present herself to the public eye.
"'Thieving time is woman's crime,'" I said, quoting a domestic proverb.

"In another household you would; be left behind." "Of course," she replied, such summary discipline seeming to her as appropriate as to an European child.

"I don't like always to deserve the vine and receive the nuts." "You must take which _I_ like," I retorted, laughing.

Satisfied or silenced, she hastened to dress, and enjoyed with unalloyed delight the unusual pleasure of inspecting dresses and jewellery, and making more purchases in a day than she had expected to be able to do in two years.