I told you, didn't I, that he is to be married to Barung's only legitimate daughter on the night of the next full moon but one.

The ceremony is to take place in Harmac City, and will be the greatest of its sort for generations, a feast of the entire people in short.

I should very much like to be present at it, but being an intelligent young man he has promised to keep notes of everything, which I hope may become available in due course." "And is he attached to this savage lady ?" I asked dismayed.
"Attached?
Oh, dear no, I think he said he had never seen her, and only knew that she was rather plain and reported to possess a haughty temper.
He is a philosophical young man, however, as might be expected from one who has undergone so many vicissitudes, and, therefore, takes things as they come, thanking heaven that they are no worse.

You see, as the husband of the Sultan's daughter, unless the pair quarrel very violently, he will be safe from the lions, and he could never quite say as much before.

But we didn't go into these domestic matters very deeply as there were so many more important things to interest us both.