"What is the meaning of this?" I demanded. "Why are we made prisoners? Why have we been brought here?"
She beckoned me to come to the divan on which she reclined and as I approached she motioned to me to sit down beside her.
"What you have seen tonight," she said, "represents the three fates that lie in store for you. Ghron has taken a fancy to you and he is giving you your choice."
"I do not yet quite understand," I said.
"You saw the victim before the grill?" she asked.
"Yes," I replied.
"Would you care to suffer that fate?"
"Scarcely."
"You saw the unhappy ones being bent and broken for the dance of the cripples," she pursued.
"I did," I answered.