What have you to say ?" She rose to her feet.

He made no movement, but his eyes watched her, and the muscles of his body stiffened.

He watched the white hand which stole irresolutely towards the loose folds of her coat.
"You ask me why I have done this," she cried, "but you already know.

It is because you have taken this woman with the blue eyes into your heart." "If that were true," he answered, "of what concern is it to others?
I am Prince Shan." "You sent me here to breathe this cursed western atmosphere," she moaned, "to drink in their thoughts and see with their eyes.

I see and know the folly of it all, but who can escape?
Jealousy with us is a disease.