"Let me go first!" he said.
He passed her with the words and walked ahead, holding the creepers back from her as she followed.
She suffered him silently, with a strange sense of awe, almost as though she trod holy ground.

But the old feeling of trespass was wholly absent.
She had no fear of being cast forth from this place that she was about to enter.
The path began to widen somewhat and to ascend.

In a few moments they came upon a crumbling stonewall crossing it at right angles.
Monck paused.

"One way leads to the palace, the other to the temple," he said.

"Which shall we take ?" Stella faced him in the moonlight.