What these benefits were the Kohen Gadol could not say; and thus we were left, as before, in the greatest possible anxiety.

We still dreaded the worst.

The highest honors of these men might well awaken apprehension; for they thought that the chief blessings were poverty and darkness and death.
Layelah next came to see me.

She was as amiable as ever, and showed no resentment at all.

She gave me an account of what had happened at the Council of State, which was the same as what I had heard from the Kohen Gadol.
I asked her why she had made such a report of us.
"To conciliate their good-will," said Layelah.