Before witnesses I say she is divorced." It's a simple affair in that land, isn't it?
But there were matters not so simple to attend to, and Grim saw fit to waste no further time.
"I said I come as a friend," he resumed.
"I heard it!" the Lion answered dryly.
"Without boasting, I have saved you from destruction, while delivering your purchases from El-Kalil.

And I have done your name no harm, but good on the country-side." "Allah! How have you saved me from destruction ?" "By preventing that unwise raid on El-Maan." _"Wallahi!_ Do you think my men could not have accomplished it ?" "Maybe.

Do you think the British would be fools enough to let that go unpunished?
The El-Maan people would surely have appealed to them.

Aeroplanes would have been sent to bomb you out of Petra.

Can you fight aeroplanes ?" "The British do not pretend to rule on this side of the Jordan," the Lion retorted.
"No.