- Laith Taher 261
“What is wrong, Florrie?” he asked, wondering
what made her so angry while the whole tribe was very
happy.
“Why didn’t you go to Jarvis’s house with the rest
of the women, yesterday?” he asked.
“I was ill,” she replied.
“Why are you angry?” he asked.
She looked at him angrily. “Why didn’t they
celebrate our wedding the way they did with this one?”
The man was taken off guard by that question and
did not know how to answer it, so he thought for a while
then he said, “They did not know about our wedding and
were surprised by your arrival with me. That is why their
joy was not so apparent although they felt it in their hearts.”
That was the only thing he could come up with. He
knew well that his people did not approve his marriage to
King Matthew’s daughter.
“Say something else to convince me,” she said
angrily. “They did not celebrate our wedding because they
cannot stand me or my father.”
Then she shouted, “I do not understand what kind of
a leader is not respected nor valued by his people. If they
do not feel happy for your wedding willingly, you have to
make them. But your people seem to have another leader,
who even seems to be the only leader.”
She left her seat while he remained sitting silently
astonished by what she said. Her anger became too huge to
hide, and she had to bring it up with her husband. She
wanted with all of her power to retaliate against Jarvis.