Thus, the Princess had been brought up amongst scribes, and was herself no mean artist.

Many of these things were told on the walls in pictures or in hieroglyphic writing of great beauty; and we came to the conclusion that not a few of them had been done by the Princess herself.

It was not without cause that she was inscribed on the Stele as 'Protector of the Arts'.
"But the King had gone to further lengths, and had had his daughter taught magic, by which she had power over Sleep and Will.

This was real magic--"black" magic; not the magic of the temples, which, I may explain, was of the harmless or "white" order, and was intended to impress rather than to effect.

She had been an apt pupil; and had gone further than her teachers.