The Soul of a Slave

"For over a year I was a slave, and lived with the slaves, but I could not become as one of them. One day Sira asked me: Why does thou sit in thy tent alone?" "I am pondering what you have said to me," he replied. He also told her that he was not a slave by birth, but the son of a free man. 'But every woman longs for is to be desired,' she confided.