You do change your mind sometimes.

Who was it who lately scoffed at women, their immortality, their virtue, and their intellect?
Will you tell me now, friend Abdul, that you have not changed your mind?
Do you think of anything, sleeping or waking, but the one woman for whom you _have_ changed your mind?
Is not her picture ever before you, and the breath of her beauty upon your soul?
Have you not met her in the spirit as well as in the flesh?
Surely we shall hear no more of your doubts about women for some time to come.

I congratulate you, as far as that goes, on your conversion.

You have made a step towards a higher understanding of the world you live in." Isaacs did not seem in the least surprised at his visitor's intimate acquaintance with his affairs.

He bowed his head in silence, acquiescing to what Bam Lai had said, and waited for him to proceed.
"I have come," continued the Buddhist, "to give you some good advice--the best I have for you.