Juilin,' she asked hesitantly, 'what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly,' she added more quickly. 'Just a general idea.' He looked at her for a moment. 'I do not know. But they did not, either. That is the trick of it; their minds made up worse then I ever could. I have seen a tough man break when I sent for a basket of figs and some mice.