So I went down south hunting and fighting in command of the troops, and met you, Bes." "Which perhaps was better for you, Master, than to stop to watch the lady Amada acquire learning.

Still, I wonder whether the holy Tanofir is _always_ right.

You see, Master, he thinks a great deal of priests and priestesses, and is so very old that he has forgotten all about love and that without it there never would have been a holy Tanofir." "The holy Tanofir thinks of souls, not of bodies, Bes." "Yes, Master.

Still, oil is of no use without a lamp, or a soul without a body, at least here underneath the sun, or so we were taught who worship the Grasshopper.

But, Master, when you came back from all your hunting, what happened then ?" "Then I found, Bes, that the lady Amada, having acquired all the learning possible, had taken her first vows to Isis, which she said she would not break for any man on earth although she might have done so without crime.