You hesitate to tell me.

Do not think it is only jealousy that prompts me to caution you.

If the Tur's daughter should declare love to you--if in her ignorance she confides to her father any preference that may justify his belief that she will woo you, he will have no option but to request your immediate destruction, as he is specially charged with the duty of consulting the good of the community, which could not allow the daughter of the Vril-ya to wed a son of the Tish-a, in that sense of marriage which does not confine itself to union of the souls.

Alas! there would then be for you no escape.

She has no strength of wing to uphold you through the air; she has no science wherewith to make a home in the wilderness.