"The offering of Heaven." Felix ate it at once, thinking it best under the circumstances not to demur at all to anything his strange hosts might choose to impose upon him.
The chief handed the other half just as solemnly to Muriel.

"Eat, Queen of the Clouds," he said, as he placed it in her fingers.

"The offering of Heaven." Muriel hesitated.

She didn't know what his words meant, and it seemed to her rather the offering of a very dirty and unwashed savage.

The chief eyed her hard.