I bandaged the wound a Hebrew woman dealt her and she acknowledged that her heart was filled with love for you, and that on her dying bed she regarded you as the idol of her soul." Joshua, thoroughly incensed, exclaimed: "If this is the whole truth, wife of Hur, my father has given me a false report; for according to what I heard from him, the hapless woman made her last confession only in the presence of those who love me; not in yours.

And she was right to shun you--you would never have understood her." Here he saw a smile of superiority hover around Miriam's lips; but he repelled it, as he went on: "Ah, your intellect is tenfold keener than poor Kasana's ever was.

But your heart, which was open to the Most High, had no room for love.

It will grow old and cease to beat without having learned the feeling.

And, spite of your flashing eyes, I will tell you you are more than a woman, you are a prophetess.