"I do not know whether you are my friend or my foe, but I should count it my honour to have you as either. Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?"
"A promise made under duress doesn't count, that's the law."
But this is East and South of Suez, where there is no law."
"Is it not joyful to have friends come from a far land?"