It was through my lack of diligence that the hiding-place was overlooked in which she and certain of her women lay concealed, so that they overheard some of our secrets.
"For that I should have been condemned to death at once, and it would have been better if that had been done.
"Yet for fifty years I have been a man of honor.

And although it is one of our chief requirements that we lay aside such foolishness as sentiment, nevertheless the seeds of sentiment remained, and those men were loath to enforce the penalty on me, who had taught so many of them.
"So they compromised, which is inevitably fatal.

For compromise bears within itself the roots of right and wrong, so that whatever good may come of it must nevertheless be ruined by inherent evil.

I bade them use me for their studies, and have done with compromise, but being at fault my authority was gone, so they had their way.
"They imposed on me the task of making use of the Princess Yasmini, and of employing her by some means to make a beginning of the liberation of India.

And she sought to make use of me to get Athelstan King into her clutches.