“That is what I expected you to say,” he answered. “But if we are lucky and the Gods are propitious, we shall reach Tafraout and safety before they can return.”
Her face was still hidden against his shoulder and after a moment she whispered,
“I am sorry – I am really – I did not – understand that a Sheik might feel like that about me – I only wanted – help.”
“And you really imagined that was what they would give you?” Tyrone Strome asked and now there was a note of amusement in his voice.
“I read in your books that they were – uncivilised, but I suppose because I am so – ignorant it meant nothing.”
“It is not so much a question of their being uncivilised,” he answered, “but the fact is that women have little value in their eyes except as creatures of pleasure. That women may have feel
