So much was this so, that she was called 'Ilfra the Understanding One.' As the years went on she outstripped her father, and obtained a knowledge of that for which her father had unsuccessfully studied all his life.
"When Kaffar and I entered this village, she was nearly twenty years of age, and was fair to look upon.

It was rarely she spoke to me, however, for she dwelt with the unseen and talked with the buried dead.

Abou, on the other hand, was kind to me, and taught me much, and together we tried to find out what for years he had been vainly searching.

What that secret was I will not tell.

Only those who live in the atmosphere of mystery can think rightly about what lies in the mind and heart of the true magician.
"As I before hinted, 'Ilfra the Understanding One' had found out the secret; her soul had outsoared that of her father and of all the sages for many miles around, and she would have revealed her knowledge both to her father and to me, but for one thing.