She can be remorseless if she will." It did not strike me till afterwards when I was thinking over this conversation, how thoroughly I had accepted the living and conscious condition of Queen Tera as a fact.

Before I spoke, I had feared I might offend Mr.
Trelawny; but to my pleasant surprise he smiled quite genially as he answered me: "My dear fellow, in a way you are quite right.

The Queen did undoubtedly intend isolation; and, all told, it would be best that her experiment should be made as she arranged it.

But just think, that became impossible when once the Dutch explorer had broken into her tomb.

That was not my doing.