"Because"-she hesitated, then began again-"because the young man is-" The stop was full.
"Our master. Is that the word?"
"Yes."
"And you still think I should not suffer him to go away without telling him to come, if he chooses, and take us-and all we have-all, Esther-the goods, the shekels, the ships, the slaves, and the mighty credit,which is a mantle of cloth of gold and finest silver spun for me by the greatest of the angels of menSuccess."
