The whole _suk_ talks of me.

I have made purchases." "That's what I'm getting at.

You've made some unusual purchases, and you've sent to Jerusalem for things that people don't use as a rule in tents out in the desert--silk stockings, for instance, and a phonograph with special records, and soft pillows, and writing-paper, and odds and ends like that.

Do you use those things ?" "Why not ?" "Do you use books in French and English ?" She hesitated.

It was the first time she had not seemed perfectly at ease.
"Can you even read Arabic ?" She did not answer.
"Then the books, at any rate, are meant for some one else?
Tell me who that some one is." "Allah!" she exploded "May I not buy what I will, if I pay for it ?" But that was a false move.