"I have said." Then at last Amada spoke.
"Had I known all this story from the first, perhaps I should not have done what I have done to-day and perhaps I should have forgiven and forgotten, for in truth even if the dwarf still lies, I believe your word, O Shabaka, and understand how all came about.

But now it is too late to change.

Say, O Priest of the Mother, is it not too late ?" "It is too late," said the priest solemnly, "seeing that if such vows as yours are broken for the second time, O Prophetess, the curse of the goddess will pursue you and him for whom they were broken, yes, through this life and all other lives that perchance may be given to you upon the earth or elsewhere." "Pharaoh," I cried in despair, "I made a bond with you.

It is recorded in writing and sealed.

I have kept my part of the bond; my treasure you have spent; your enemies I have slain; your army I have commanded not so ill.