Are you Ali Higg's wife ?" "I am his second wife." "Thought so! And you've been sent to make purchases for number one ?" She nodded.
"How do you propose to convey all these things back to Petra ?" "Surely it is not difficult now that I am promised Your Honor's protection!" "My district extends half-way to Beersheba and to the eastward as far as the shore of the Dead Sea--no farther," said de Crespigny.
"I can wait.

I must wait for the purchases from Jerusalem.

Sooner or later there will be a caravan across the desert to El-Maan.

I have two servants here to make inquiries for me." "Yes, and two more who went to Jerusalem.

Four men.