What mattered a few ropes?
He was rather puzzled as to the reason of their leaving his right arm free.
Next, the curtains were thrown back, and Kathlyn stood revealed.

Near her a leopard strained impatiently on the leash.

Umballa eyed her wonderingly.

She was like the woman who had arrived weeks ago.

And yet to him she seemed less beautiful than when he paid five thousand rupees for her in the slave mart.