When tea was over, she went out of the room; but returned in a minute with the roll of drawing which she had taken with her earlier in the day.

Coming close to Mr.
Trelawny, she said: "Father, I have been carefully considering what you said today about the hidden meaning of those suns and hearts and 'Ka's', and I have been examining the drawings again." "And with what result, my child ?" asked Mr.Trelawny eagerly.
"There is another reading possible!" "And that ?" His voice was now tremulous with anxiety.

Margaret spoke with a strange ring in her voice; a ring that cannot be, unless there is the consciousness of truth behind it: "It means that at the sunset the 'Ka' is to enter the 'Ab'; and it is only at the sunrise that it will leave it!" "Go on!" said her father hoarsely.
"It means that for this night the Queen's Double, which is otherwise free, will remain in her heart, which is mortal and cannot leave its prison-place in the mummy-shrouding.

It means that when the sun has dropped into the sea, Queen Tera will cease to exist as a conscious power, till sunrise; unless the Great Experiment can recall her to waking life.

It means that there will be nothing whatever for you or others to fear from her in such way as we have all cause to remember.
Whatever change may come from the working of the Great Experiment, there can come none from the poor, helpless, dead woman who has waited all those centuries for this night; who has given up to the coming hour all the freedom of eternity, won in the old way, in hope of a new life in a new world such as she longed for...!" She stopped suddenly.