Nor do I myself know now whether I would have shot her; sometimes I think yes, sometimes no.

My guess is that I would have failed to do it, and that Narayan Singh, who was standing by and heard every word that passed, would have wiped my eye, as the saying is.
Then Ibrahim ben Ah came striding into our midst like an old-time shepherd with a modern rifle in place of crook, looking neither to the right nor the left of him, but fixing his eyes on the man he thought was Ali Higg on the camel beyond us.

He seemed surprised when Jael Higg stopped him, and told him to take all his men at once to that oasis, where he was to wait, if necessary, three days.
"I was told to speak with the Lion himself," he objected.

_"Ya sit Jael,_* there is wrath for those who disobey him!" [* O lady Jael.] "Go, taste his wrath then!" she retorted.

"There was shooting because of a mistake in the darkness.