And yet I cannot help believing you when you talk of your love for me.

But I am afraid!" He felt flattered and annoyed by her vehemence, and said-- "Well, I am with you now.

I did come back.

And it was you that went away." "When you have helped Abdulla against the Rajah Laut, who is the first of white men, I shall not be afraid any more," she whispered.
"You must believe what I say when I tell you that there never was another woman; that there is nothing for me to regret, and nothing but my enemies to remember." "Where do you come from ?" she said, impulsive and inconsequent, in a passionate whisper.

"What is that land beyond the great sea from which you come?
A land of lies and of evil from which nothing but misfortune ever comes to us--who are not white.