Then Mena courted you.

You love him truly, and in four long years he has been with you but a month or two; your mother remained with you, and you hardly observed that she was managing your own house for you, and took all the trouble of the household.

You had a great pastime of your own--your thoughts of Mena, and scope for a thousand dreams in your distant love.

I know it, Nefert; all that you have seen and heard and felt in these twenty months has centred in him and him alone.

Nor is it wrong in itself.