When he had quite finished Grim took up the argument again.
"Now let's know where we stand.

Are you and I to be friends, Jael ?" She nodded.
"I'm no half-way adventurer.

I'll make your fortune," she said, "if you'll come the whole way with me, and stay this side of Jordan." He shook his head and smiled back at her.
"You've your work cut out to keep Ali Higg off the rocks, Jael." "There's no room for two of you," she answered darkly.
"I guess not." She looked hard at me, and back from me to Grim.

I don't know yet whether she was setting a trap for us or really in earnest about what she said next.

Grim thinks she was drawing a bow at a venture.
"Is this the _hakim ?_ One of the two respectable persons you have with you?
Hm! Respectability is a mask--often a safe mask, often an offensive one, always a lie.