I understand the motive that prompts you to thus undertake to avenge what you think are my wrongs.

But you must halt.

I demand a hearing." "Speak on; my ears are open to your voice.

You saved my child from the pestilence that stalketh at noon day, and the heart of Ben Taleb has been full of gratitude ever since," replies the dignified native doctor.
"First, then, hear that, though I thought I should die when I no longer had a home in my husband's house, my eyes were speedily opened, and I saw that Heaven was using me as an instrument to bring about good.

So I learned to be patient.