"I should hate you if you did."
"I couldn't run such a risk a second time," he replied. "I'll send her back to the harem, and keep her there until I can find a suitable husband, if that'll please you better."
Pansy experienced a feeling of relief. The victory was easier than she had expected.
There was a brief pause. Then he said:
"So you're still returning good for evil, Pansy. Your power of forgiveness is astonishing. Rayma deserved punishment for her treatment of you."
"If anyone deserves punishment it's you," Pansy retorted.
"How do you make that out?"
"For trifling with her."
For a moment he was too astonished to speak.
"If you call that trifling, then I must have trifled with at least a hundred women in my day," he remarked at length.