Do not let us judge her.

I have been a great fool, that is all, and now I am paying for my folly, or, rather, I have paid.

Come, let us have some dinner, for we don't know when we shall get another meal." We listened to this speech in silence, only I saw Roderick turn aside to hide a smile and wondered why he smiled.
Scarcely had we finished eating, or pretending to eat, when an officer entered the room and informed us roughly that it was time for us to be going.

As he did so some attendants who had followed him threw us bundles of clothes, and with them four very beautiful camel-hair cloaks to protect us from the cold.

With some of these garments we replaced our rags, for they were little more, tying them and the rest of the outfit up into bundles.
Then, clothed as Abati of the upper class, we were taken to the gates of the barrack, where we found a long train of riding camels waiting for us.