"Call 'em off, or I'll kill you! Shout to 'em; d'you hear!" "Ayisha! What does this mean?
Ali?
Ali Higg?
You here?
I don't understand!" "You'll be dead before you understand if you don't call those men off," Grim answered; and his pistol demonstrated that he meant it, for her men were closing in on us.
So she knelt up on her camel and cried out that Ali Higg was there, bidding them keep their distance.
"But what does this mean, Ali?
And you speak English?
Since when?
Oh, I must be mad! You are not Ali Higg! No! I see now you are not, but.

.

." She turned on Ayisha and spoke in Arabic: "Ayisha, what does this mean?
Answer me!" But Ayisha said nothing.

She chose to get back between the curtains of the _shibriyah,_ and I saw Narayan Singh on the far side whispering to her.
"For," as he told me afterward, "the time to persuade a woman you are her friend is when she is afraid or distracted by doubt.

At all other times she is like a leopard; but then she is like a lost sheep!" The silence was at an end now.