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AYESHA
Yes, my Leo, now indeed we are
and she sighed, looked up tenderly and said, clad with splendour for a robe,
and now our fate draws near to its accomplishment. Then perchance will come the down-rushing of the night;See, I am talking to thee in Arabic. Hast thou forgotten it?
No.
Then let it be our tongue, for I love it best of all, who lisped it at my mother's knee. Now leave me here alone awhile; I would think. Also,
she added thoughtfully, and speaking with a strange and impressive inflexion of the voice, there are some to whom I must give audience.
So we went, all of us, supposing that Ayesha was about to receive a deputation of the Chiefs of the Mountain Tribes who came to felicitate her upon her betrothal.
