Also, to be honest, Saduko was a good match, or seemed to be so." By now we were walking side by side, for the train of wagons had gone ahead to the old outspan.

So I stopped and looked her in the face.
"'Seemed to be,'" I repeated.

"What do you mean by 'seemed to be'?
Are you not happy this time ?" "Not altogether, Macumazahn," she answered, with a shrug of her shoulders.

"Saduko is very fond of me--fonder than I like indeed, since it causes him to neglect Nandie, who, by the way, has another son, and, although she says little, that makes Nandie cross.

In short," she added, with a burst of truth, "I am the plaything, Nandie is the great lady, and that place suits me ill." "If you love Saduko, you should not mind, Mameena." "Love," she said bitterly.