"Sir Godwin, it is so.

What does your faith teach--the faith in which I was bred, and lost, but that now is mine again--because it is yours?
That men and women are free, or so some read it.

Well, it or they are wrong.

We are not free.

Was I free when first I saw your eyes in Beirut, the eyes for which I had been watching all my life, and something came from you to me, and I--the cast-off plaything of Sinan--loved you, loved you, loved you--to my own doom?
Yes, and rejoiced that it was so, and still rejoice that it is so, and would choose no other fate, because in that love I learned that there is a meaning in this life, and that there is an answer to it in lives to be, otherwhere if not here.