She came closer, and seriously opened them upon him. It was very hard for Shijiro looking into them to nod his assent that they were beast's eyes.
"Then the question is," said the girl, with innocent mirth, "why, if I am not beautiful, if nothing about me is, why did you do so?"
"Do what?" demanded the soldier, with a pretence of savagery.
"Look so into my eyes, touch so my hands, listen so to my miserable voice?"
"I supposed that I was in a heaven, and that you were an—attendant," said Arisuga.
"But after you knew that you were not in a heaven?"
The soldier gave up with a laugh.
"I see that we shall be very good friends," he said. They laughed together.
"Lord," she said, "I do not know whether you speak true!"
"I," said the soldier, "have the impression that I have lied to you about you."