Come and show me how you handle that great bow of yours.

Did you bring it with you or did you fashion it here?
They tell me, Teule, that there is no such archer in the land.' So I came up and showed him the bow which was of my own make, and would shoot an arrow some sixty paces further than any that I saw in Anahuac, and we fell into talk on matters of sport and war, Marina helping out my want of language, and before that day was done we had grown friendly.
For a week the prince Guatemoc and his company rested in the town of Tobasco, and all this time we three talked much together.

Soon I saw that Marina looked with eyes of longing on the great lord, partly because of his beauty rank and might, and partly because she wearied of her captivity in the house of the cacique, and would share Guatemoc's power, for Marina was ambitious.

She tried to win his heart in many ways, but he seemed not to notice her, so that at last she spoke more plainly and in my hearing.
'You go hence to-morrow, prince,' she said softly, 'and I have a favour to ask of you, if you will listen to your handmaid.' 'Speak on, maiden,' he answered.
'I would ask this, that if it pleases you, you will buy me of the cacique my master, or command him to give me up to you, and take me with you to Tenoctitlan.' Guatemoc laughed aloud.

'You put things plainly, maiden,' he said, 'but know that in the city of Tenoctitlan, my wife and royal cousin, Tecuichpo, awaits me, and with her three other ladies, who as it chances are somewhat jealous.' Now Marina flushed beneath her brown skin, and for the first and last time I saw her gentle eyes grow hard with anger as she answered: 'I asked you to take me with you, prince; I did not ask to be your wife or love.' 'But perchance you meant it,' he said dryly.
'Whatever I may have meant, prince, it is now forgotten.