He was so foolish as to threaten loudly anyone who dared approach her.

After he had done so several times a man arose from the bed next to mine and strolling to him seized him by the throat.
'O man,' he chided.

'Art thou mad or what, thus to arouse our passions by thy talk of women?
Be silent, or we honest men here present will wring thy neck and take thy woman from thee.

Dost thou understand ?' He shook that jealous husband as a terrier would shake a rat.

'Be silent, hearest thou?
Men wish to sleep.' 'Said I not well, O brother ?' said the monitor to me, as he got back to bed.
'By Allah, well,' was my reply.