If I laboured for better things outside Kaid's Palace, how long dost thou think I should escape the Nile, or the diamond-dust in my coffee?
The work which I did, is it not so that it, with much more, falls now to thy hands, Saadat, with a confidence from Kaid that never was mine ?" "I sought not the office." "Have I a word of blame?
I come to ask for work to do with thee.

Do I not know Prince Kaid?
He had come to distrust us all.

As stale water were we in his taste.

He had no pleasure in us, and in our deeds he found only stones of stumbling.

He knew not whom to trust.