Perchance a time may come when once more you will turn to me in the hour of your need; if so and I am living, I will come.

Yea, if I am dead I think that I still shall come, since nothing can really part us.

Meanwhile by day and by night I wear your ring and whenever I look on it I think of Amada the woman whose lips have pressed my own, and forget Amada the priestess who for her soul's sake has been pleased to break the heart of the man who loved her and whom she misjudged so sorely in her pride and anger." This tablet I wrapped up and sealed, using clay and her own ring to make the seal, and gave it for delivery to the priest.
At length we drew near to the river and here, gathered on the open land, I found the most of those who had fought with me in the battle against the Easterns, and with them a great concourse of others from the city.

These collected round me, some of them wounded and hobbling upon crutches, praying me not to go, as did the others who foresaw sorrow to Egypt from my loss.

But I broke away from them almost in tears and with my mother hid myself beneath the canopy of the boat.