May not these things be an allegory prepared for our instruction?
I will take comfort.

I will hope that it is so.

Nay, I am sure that it is so.
It will be remembered that in Kor we found the immortal woman.

There before the flashing rays and vapours of the Pillar of Life she declared her mystic love, and then in our very sight was swept to a doom so horrible that even now, after all which has been and gone, I shiver at its recollection.

Yet what were Ayesha's last words?
"_Forget me not.