It was long after midnight when that husband returned to the roof of his wife, and Hannay was already fast asleep.
Okoya had gone long before Hannay thought of returning.

He went home happy, and satisfied that Mitsha henceforth belonged to him.

And yet after all there was a cloud on his mind,--not a very threatening one, yet a cloud such as accompanies us everywhere, marring our perfect happiness whenever we fancy we have attained it.

Mitsha had said to him, while they were alone,-- "If you were only Koshare, the sanaya would give me to you." Okoya thereupon imagined that without Hannay's consent he could never obtain the maiden.

On the other hand, the idea of joining the Delight Makers did not at all suit him.