I interrupted him with questions.

Both of us were glad to talk in order to get rid of the remembrance of our former fear.

We gave the rein to our imaginations, speaking eagerly.
Reverting to the severed limbs which we had seen, Rashid exclaimed: 'Now I will tell your Honour how it happened.

A deadly insult had been offered to a family in a young girl's dishonour.

Her father and her brothers killed her to wipe out the shame--as is the custom here among the fellahin--and then with all their relatives waylaid the men of the insulter's house when these were cutting wood here in the forest.
There was a furious battle, lasting many hours.