“But she might tell you a woeful tale of an imaginary wrong. She might seek to arouse your sympathy. She might claim that she had been captured and imprisoned against her will.”
“I am growing interested. If you can afford to pay the price demanded for me, you must be a very rich man.”
“I am far from poor.”
“You are kind to your wives?”
“I am gentleness itself.”
“They have every comfort and luxury in the home you provide for them?”
“No woman can ask for more.”
“Then this girl should soon learn to be contented and happy. She has some peculiar ideas in her head just now, but she will get over them. If you purchase me, I shall do everything in my power for her.”
“You Western women are remarkable. No woman of the East would talk to me like this. I almost fear you. I seem to feel that you possess a strange power that our women know nothing of.”
Again she laughed.