This she has done because she alleges that I, your Inkosikazi and the King's daughter, treated her as a servant, which is a lie.

I kept her in her place, no more, who, if she could have had her will, would have ousted me from mine, perhaps by death, for the wives of wizards learn their arts.

On this pretext she has left you; but that is not her real reason.

She has left you because the Prince, my brother, whom she has befooled with her tricks and beauty, as she has befooled others, or tried to"-- and she glanced at me--"is a bigger man than you are.

You, Saduko, may become great, as my heart prays that you will, but my brother may become a king.