some of the wives were nice, but some were simply horrid, and the horrid ones quarrelled with the nice ones and made them horrid too, and then they would all quarrel with suleiman-bin-daoud, and that was horrid for him. but balkis the most beautiful never quarrelled with suleiman-bin-daoud. she loved him too much. she sat in her rooms in the golden palace, or walked in the palace garden, and was truly sorry for him.