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Updated: June 16, 2025
Again the test-stone was applied, and again the discoloration testified to the truth of the charge. "You have seen?" I said. "We have seen," answered Enva, in the same tone of horror, too deep to be other than quiet. We all left the room, closing the door upon the prisoner.
"It is intolerable," said Enva bitterly; "I detest her." "Is it her fault?" asked Eunané with some warmth. "They are so like each other and so unlike us, that I could fancy she came from his own world. I went to her next day in her own room." "Ay," interjected Leenoo with childish spite, "'kiss the foot and 'scape the sandal." "Think so," returned Eunané quietly, "if you like.
You made a double mistake when you left Enva on guard.... You don't think I tempted her to disobey? Eager as I was for release, I could not have been so doubly false. She did it unconsciously. It is time to put her out of pain." "Does she know me so little as to think I could mean to torture her by suspense? Besides, even she must have seen that you had secured her pardon."
A girl sells her society for the best price her attractions will command. These attractions seldom increase. You cannot give her less because you care less for them; but how can she expect more?" "I know, Enva, that the marriage contract here is an open bargain and sale, as among my race it is generally a veiled one. But, the bargain made, does it really govern the after relation?
As Enva said, I have bought and paid for them, and may do what I please within the contract; and you agree that is just what any other man in this world would do." "Yes," returned Eveena, "and I watched your face while Enva spoke. How did you like her doctrine? Of course you may do as you please if you can please.
You do not share your wealth even with those on whose care it chiefly depends." "Yes, I do, Eveena. But I know what you mean. Their share is settled and is not increased. But you will not tell me that this affords any standard for household dealings; that a wife's share in her husband's fortune is really bounded by the terms of the marriage contract?" "Will you let Enva answer you?" asked Eveena.
Enva, moreover, with the vigorous youthful vitality-so often found on Earth in women of her light Northern complexion, seemed less likely to suffer from the severity of the weather or the fatigue of a land journey than most of her companions. When I spoke of my intention to Davilo, I was surprised to find that he considered even feminine company a protection.
I closed the room, threw off my dress, and endeavoured by means of the perfumed shower-bath to drive from my person what traces of the infection might cling to it; for Eveena had the keys of all my cases and of the medicine-chest, and I could not make up my mind to reclaim them by a simple unexplained message sent by an ambâ, or, still worse, by the hands of Enva or Eivé.
Do men really spend their wealth wholly on themselves, and take no pleasure in the pleasure of women?" "Generally, I believe," Enva replied, "they fancy they have paid too much for their toy before they have possessed it long, and had rather buy a new one than make much of those they have. Wives seldom look on the increase of a man's wealth as a gain to themselves.
"Then you are swinging on a rotten branch. I would not believe my ears if, for all that all of us could invent against her, I heard him so much as ask Eveena, 'Are you speaking the truth?" "It is very uneven measure," muttered Enva. "Uneven!" cried Eunané.
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