Carlyon.
Oh! The recklessness of youth!
Adene.
Well, with your letters and tokens, when they had that devotion to you——
Carlyon.
[Turning sharply.] Do you think it was from love they didn't touch me? The account you will get of me there is not what you'll get at Exeter Hall.
Adene.
Surely it was at bottom because of your fairness, because you stood by the weak?
Carlyon.
Much those savages care for that! It was not my fairness that saved me! Do you know the Bhojâli song, "Said the tiger to Carlyon?"