Alwa here stands pledged to protect Howrah and you have promised to aid Jaimihr.

Somebody's word has got to break, and you may take it from me that it will be the word of the weakest man! I think that that man is Jaimihr, but I can't be sure in advance, and we've got to accept his promise to begin with.

Go to him, Miss McClean, and make a very careful bargain with him along the line I mapped out for you.

Alwa-sahib, I want witnesses, or rather overhearers.

I want you and Mahommed Gunga to place yourselves near Jaimihr's cell so that you can hear what he says.