But how can I help you, Karema ?" "Least of all by going away and leaving me alone," she answered with the tears starting to her eyes.
Looking at her, I began to think that the best thing I could do would be to go away and at once, but as ever she read my thought, shook her head and laughed.
"No, no, I have put on my yoke and will carry it to the end.

Have I not two black children and a husband who is a hero, a wit and a mountebank in one, and a throne and more gold and crystal than I ever wish to see again even in a dream, and shall I not cling to these good things?
If you went I should only be a little more unhappy than before, that is all.

Not for my sake do I ask you to stay, but for your own." "How for my own, Karema?
I have done all that I can do here.

I have built the army afresh from cook-boys to generals.

Bes needs me no longer who has you, his children and his country, and I die of weariness." "You can stop to make use of that army you have built afresh, Shabaka." "Against whom?
There are none to fight." "Against the Great King of the East.Listen.My gift of vision has grown strong and clear of late.