The house was being aroused by the cry of the woman.
With his bare, silent feet, Athribis sped through the shadows of the corridors to what he thought a secret spot, and hid himself.

The house resounded with outcries.

Feet ran hither and thither.
Out in the court, hanging all unseen from a palm-tree, swayed the papyrus, the written copy of part of the Sacred Book of the Christians!.