Otomie saw it also and drew back.
'Surely, girl, you have brought a garment of your own in error,' she said quietly, but in such a fashion as showed more of the savage heart that is native to her race than she often suffered to be seen; 'at the least I cannot wear such robes.' 'It seems that I must bear too much,' answered Marina, growing wroth at last, and striving to keep back the tears that started to her eyes.

'I will away and leave you;' and she began to roll up her bundle.
'Forgive her, Marina,' I said hastily, for the desire to escape grew on me every minute; 'sorrow has set an edge upon her tongue.' Then turning to Otomie I added, 'I pray you be more gentle, wife, for my sake if not for your own.

Marina is our only hope.' 'Would that she had left us to die in peace, husband.

Well, so be it, for your sake I will put on these garments of a drab.

But how shall we escape out of this place and the camp?
Will the door be opened to us, and the guards removed, and if we pass them, can you walk, husband ?' 'The doors will not be opened, lady,' said Marina, 'for those wait without, who will see that they are locked when I have passed them.