Then what--what would happen?
Under the Abati law it was death for any one outside of the permitted degree of relationship to tamper with the affections of the Child of Kings.

Nor was this wonderful, since that person held her seat in virtue of her supposed direct descent from Solomon and the first Maqueda, Queen of Sheba, and therefore the introduction of any alien blood could not be tolerated.
Moreover, Orme, having sworn an oath of allegiance, had become subject to those laws.

Lastly, I could not in the least hope from the character of the pair concerned that this was but a passing flirtation.
Oh! without a doubt these two had signed their own death-warrant yonder in the Cave of Death, and incidentally ours also.

This must be the end of our adventure and my long search for the son whom I had lost..