"Never before did I hear one of your sex rejoice because a man was faithful to somebody else." "Has Bickley been disappointed in his love-heart, that he is so angry to us women ?" asked Yva innocently of me.

Then, without waiting for an answer, she inquired of him whether he had been successful in his analysis of the Life-water.
"How do you know what I was doing with the Life-water?
Did Bastin tell you ?" exclaimed Bickley.
"Bastin told me nothing, except that he was afraid of the descent to Nyo; that he hated Nyo when he reached it, as indeed I do, and that he thought that my father, the Lord Oro, was a devil or evil spirit from some Under-world which he called hell." "Bastin has an open heart and an open mouth," said Bickley, "for which I respect him.

Follow his example if you will, Lady Yva, and tell us who and what is the Lord Oro, and who and what are you." "Have we not done so already?
If not, I will repeat.

The Lord Oro and I are two who have lived on from the old time when the world was different, and yet, I think, the same.

He is a man and not a god, and I am a woman.