“You’ll get used to me in time,” she said. “That is, you will if you are not bluffing.”
“Bluffing? Perhaps I know what you mean, and still——”
“I mean about paying the price Bilmah demands. I have seen men who pretended they were ready and willing to spend money when they had no thought of doing so.”
“You shall see what I mean to do. Of course I have a right to make the best bargain possible with old Bilmah.”
“No; you must pay the price he demands. Whatever you induce him to take off you keep from the one to whom he is to send the money.”
“Do you trust him to forward it?”
“That is fixed. The one who got me in here will see that Bilmah does not cheat.”
“Very well. Although as yet I have seen scarcely more of your face than your eyes and forehead, yet I am going to pay the price. Be ready to leave this place directly. I shall have a carriage at the door in less than ten minutes.”
Then Hafsa Pasha arose and sought the old trader.