She was Lord Eglington's wife--there could be no sharing of soul and mind and body and the exquisite devotion of a life too dear for thought.

Nothing that she was to Eglington could be divided with another, not for an hour, not by one act of impulse; or else she must be less, she that might have been, if there had been no Eglington-- An exclamation broke from him, and, as one crying out in one's sleep wakes himself, so the sharp cry of his misery woke him from the trance of memory that had been upon him, and he slowly became conscious of Ebn Ezra standing before him.

Their eyes met, and Ebn Ezra spoke: "The will of Allah be thy will, Saadat.

If it be to go to the Soudan, I am thine; if it be to stay, I am thy servant and thy brother.

But whether it be life or death, thou must sleep, for the young are like water without sleep.