We shall meet no more till that sorry day when a "slut" shall be given to a "felon" in marriage.

I use your own words, Teule!' Then rising, Otomie cast her veil about her face and passed slowly from the chamber, leaving me much disturbed.

It was a bold deed to have rejected the proffered love of this queen among women, and now that I had done so I was not altogether glad.

Would Lily, I wondered, have offered to descend from such state, to cast off the purple of her royal rank that she might lie at my side on the red stone of sacrifice?
Perhaps not, for this fierce fidelity is only to be found in women of another breed.

These daughters of the Sun love wholly when they love at all, and as they love they hate.