"Say out your say, for none are present save us three, and from the Messenger here I have no secrets." "What, Husband, none?
Do you ever talk to him of certain fruit that you ripened in a garden yonder ?" "From the Messenger I have no secrets," repeated Hokosa in a heavy voice.
"Then his heart must be full of them indeed, and it is little wonder that he seems sick," replied Noma, gibing.

"Tell me, Hokosa, is it true that you have become a Christian, or would you but fool the white man and his following ?" "It is true." At the words her graceful shape was shaken with a little gust of silent laughter.
"The wizard has turned saint," she said.

"Well, then, what of the wizard's wife ?" "You were my wife before I became Christian; if the Messenger permits it, you can still abide with me." "If the Messenger permits it! So you have come to this, Hokosa, that you must ask the leave of another man as to whether or no you should keep your own wife! There is no other thing that I could not have thought of you, but this I would never have believed had I not heard it from your lips.

Say now, do you still love me, Hokosa ?" "You know well that I love you, now and always," he answered, in a voice that sounded like a groan; "as you know that for love of you I have done many sins from which otherwise I should have turned aside." "Grieve not over them, Hokosa; after all, in such a count as yours they will make but little show.

Well, if you love me, I hate you, though through your witchcraft your will yet has the mastery of mine.