She had been, according to Corbeck's statement, born of a dead mother during the time that her father and his friend were in a trance in the tomb at Aswan.

That trance was presumably effected by a woman; a woman mummied, yet preserving as we had every reason to believe from after experience, an astral body subject to a free will and an active intelligence.

With that astral body, space ceased to exist.

The vast distance between London and Aswan became as naught; and whatever power of necromancy the Sorceress had might have been exercised over the dead mother, and possibly the dead child.
The dead child! Was it possible that the child was dead and was made alive again?
Whence then came the animating spirit--the soul?
Logic was pointing the way to me now with a vengeance! If the Egyptian belief was true for Egyptians, then the "Ka" of the dead Queen and her "Khu" could animate what she might choose.

In such case Margaret would not be an individual at all, but simply a phase of Queen Tera herself; an astral body obedient to her will! Here I revolted against logic.