The people were not very tall, their hair was fair, and men and women both had it short.

Their eyes were blue, and that seemed odd in Egypt.

Most of them were tattooed like sailors, only more roughly.
'What is this?
What is this ?' they kept asking touching the children's clothes curiously.
Anthea hastily took off Jane's frilly lace collar and handed it to the woman who seemed most friendly.
'Take this,' she said, 'and look at it.

And leave us alone.

We want to talk among ourselves.' She spoke in the tone of authority which she had always found successful when she had not time to coax her baby brother to do as he was told.