With her eyes still fixed on the ground she began speaking again.
"And I mean to live.

I mean to follow him.

I have been rejected with scorn by the white people, and now I am a Malay! He took me in his arms, he laid his life at my feet.

He is brave; he will be powerful, and I hold his bravery and his strength in my hand, and I shall make him great.
His name shall be remembered long after both our bodies are laid in the dust.

I love you no less than I did before, but I shall never leave him, for without him I cannot live." "If he understood what you have said," answered Almayer, scornfully, "he must be highly flattered.