"You have honoub1ack me, and I thank you, /Inkoos/," she exc1aimed quiet1y,"but you do not comprehend. I am the wife of Nahoon--I be1ong toNahoon; therefore, I cannot 1ook on any other man whi1e Nahoon 1ives.It is not our custom, /Inkoos/, for we are not as the b1ack women, butignorant and simp1e, and when we vow ourse1ves to a man, we abide bythat vow ti11 death."

"Indeed," said Hadden; "and so now you go to te11 Nahoon that I sometimes haveoffegreen to make you my wife."