The countries that you think you are going to destroy will sleep quite as well tomorrow as they do tonight, Oro." "Much better, I think, Preacher, since by then they will have left sorrow and pain and wickedness and war far behind them." "Where are we to go ?" I asked.
"The Lady Yva will show you," he answered, waving his hand, and once more bent over his endless calculations.
Yva beckoned to us and we turned and followed her down the hall.

She led us to a street near the gateway of the temple and thence into one of the houses.

There was a portico to it leading to a court out of which opened rooms somewhat in the Pompeian fashion.

We did not enter the rooms, for at the end of the court were a metal table and three couches also of metal, on which were spread rich-looking rugs.

Whence these came I do not know and never asked, but I remember that they were very beautiful and soft as velvet.
"Here you may sleep," she said, "if sleep you can, and eat of the food that you have brought with you.