Mercy, mercy!" Tu-Kila-Kila smiled as before, a smile of imperial pride.

No ray of pity gleamed from those steel-gray eyes.

"Does Tu-Kila-Kila show mercy ?" he asked, in a mocking voice.

"Does he pardon his suppliants?
Does he forgive trespasses?
Is he not a god, and must not his wrath be appeased?
She, being a woman, and not a wife sealed to Tu-Kila-Kila, has dared to look from afar upon his sacred home.

She has spied the mysteries.
Therefore she must die.