Well, it might be so, but no approaching sufferings could stay our feet.

And even if they could, they should not, since to see her face again I was ready to brave them all.

And if this was my case what must be that of Leo! A strange theory that of Kou-en's, that Ayesha was the goddess in old Egypt to whom Kallikrates was priest, or at the least her representative.

That the royal Amenartas, with whom he fled, seduced him from the goddess to whom he was sworn.

That this goddess incarnate in Ayesha--or using the woman Ayesha and her passions as her instruments--was avenged upon them both at Kor, and that there in an after age the bolt she shot fell back upon her own head.
Well, I had often thought as much myself.