I always go down at twelve o'clock, with some of the other slave girls, to fetch the food and sweetmeats for the ladies of the harem." "Well, you must always manage, even if you are not sent out, to look out through that doorway where you met me, at eight o'clock in the morning.

If we have anything particular to say to you, Surajah--that is my friend, you know--will be there.

Which way do you go out from the harem to fetch the food ?" "Not from that door, but from the one nearest to the kitchen.

You go right down that corridor, and then take the first turning to the right.

There is a flight of stairs at its end.