"My Father, although you know it not, you seek great evil, and from these hopes you sow you will harvest nothing save a loss of which you do not dream.

Moreover, your plans will fail.

Now I who am, like yourself, of the Children of Wisdom, have spoken, for the first and last time, and my words are true.

I pray you give them weight, my Father." Oro heard, and grew furious.
"What!" he said.

"Are you against me, every one, and my own daughter also?
I would lift you up, I would make you rulers of a new world; I would destroy your vile civilisations which I have studied with my eyes, that I may build better! To you, Humphrey, I would give my only child in marriage that from you may spring a divine race of kings! And yet you are against me and set up your puny scruples as a barrier across my path of wisdom.