I see now that when I left Saduko I should have left him dead.

Thrice I had thought of it.

Once I mixed the poison in his drink, and then he came in, weary with his plottings, and kissed me ere he drank; and my woman's heart grew soft and I overset the bowl that was at his lips.

Do you not remember, Saduko?
"So, so! For that folly alone I deserve to die, for she who would reign"-- and her beautiful eyes flashed royally--"must have a tiger's heart, not that of a woman.

Well, because I was too kind I must die; and, after all is said, it is well to die, who go hence awaited by thousands upon thousands that I have sent before me, and who shall be greeted presently by your son, Indhlovu-ene-Sihlonti, and his warriors, greeted as the Inkosazana of Death, with red, lifted spears and with the royal salute! "Now, I have spoken.