There was the carven chair upon which she should have been among those of the princesses, but it was empty.

At first I thought that she was late, but when time went by and she did not appear, I asked if she were ill, a question that none seemed able to answer.
The feast went on with all the ancient ceremonies that attended the crowning of a Pharaoh of Egypt, since there were old men who remembered these, also the scribes and priests had them written in their books.
I took no heed of them and will not set them down.

At length Pharaoh pledged his subjects, and his subjects pledged Pharaoh.

Then the doors were opened and through them came a company of white-robed, shaven priests bearing on a bier the body of a dead man wrapped in his mummy-cloths.

At first some laughed for this rite had not been performed in Egypt since she passed into the hands of the Great Kings of the East and therefore was strange to them.