Jacqui wrote:
As I said once before, taking one of the 'natives' as a playmate for his
daughter, knowing the girl's likely fate, is debatable ethically.<
But we don't know the circumstances of him adopting her. If he'd found her abandoned - the Sarrans seem savage enough for the practice of ridding themselves of superfluous baby girls - then taking her in would have been a charitable deed.
Marian