At last I heard him say, "We had hoped to spend a few days with you, my dear Luna.

But as you tell us that your engagements make this impossible"-- and he paused to drink some port, whereon Lady Ragnall remarked inconsequently, "I assure you the ten o'clock train is far the best and I have ordered the carriage at half-past nine, which is not very early." "As your engagements make this impossible," he repeated, "we would ask for the opportunity of a little family conclave with you to-night." Here all of them turned and glowered at me.
"Certainly," said Lady Ragnall, "'the sooner 'tis over the sooner to sleep.' Mr.Quatermain, I am sure, will excuse us, will you not?
I have had the museum lit up for you, Mr.Quatermain.You may find some Egyptian things there that will interest you." "Oh, with pleasure!" I murmured, and fled away.
I spent a very instructive two hours in the museum, studying various Egyptian antiquities including a couple of mummies which rather terrified me.

They looked so very corpse-like standing there in their wrappings.

One was that of a lady who was a "Singer of Amen," I remember.

I wondered where she was singing now and what song.