Conversation was not easy, for we were swinging along at a great pace, and my camel was a lot smaller than hers.
"And you are an Indian?
How is it that you speak English ?" "Many of us speak it.

We pass our college examinations in English." "How do you come to be with that--that sheikh ?" she asked next.
"It pleases me to follow him.

_Inshallah,_ I may help him in case of sickness." "You are a _hakim ?"_ I admitted that, although secretly pitying any poor devil who might pin faith to the claim.
"Ali Higg--the real one, who is known as the Lion of Petra--believes in Indian _hakims,_ like all these Arabs who have no use for European doctors.

And this big man on my left, who is he ?" "My servant." "An Afghan ?" "A Pathan." She turned that over in her mind, too, for several minutes.
"And how does Ayisha come to be with you ?" she asked at last.
At that Narayan Singh broke silence, and although he denied it afterward I know that his only motive was to get a little preliminary vengeance on Ayisha for the names she had called him.
He maintains that he was "casting a stone, as it were, into a pond to see which way the ripples went." "Few women will refuse to follow a Pathan when honored by his admiration," he boomed.
I could not see her face then, because she was staring at Narayan Singh.
"Do you realize whose wife you are tampering with ?" she asked him.
"Hah! Where I come from a man must guard his women if he hopes to keep them." "Where you are going to, such a man as you will find his own life hard enough to keep," she retorted.
_"Bismillah!_ I have kept it thus far," said Narayan Singh.
She turned to me again.
"What does the sheikh of yours call himself ?" "Hajji Jimgrim bin Yazid of El-Abdeh." "Jimgrim.

Jimgrim.