Oh! she will be angry with me, no doubt, but in Egypt even a dwarf cannot be killed because he has declared a certain lady to be the most beautiful in the world.

But, Master, tell me, when did you learn to love her ?" "When we were boy and girl, Bes.

We used to play together, being cousins, and I used to hold her hand.

Then suddenly she refused to let me hold her hand any more, and I being quite grown up then, though she was younger, understood that I had better go away." "I should have stopped where I was, Master." "No, Bes.

She was studying to be a priestess and my great uncle, the holy Tanofir, told me that I had better go away.