Still my advice is that you should go." [*] [ * It is fortunate that we did not accept Yva's offer.

Had we done so we should have found ourselves shut in, and perished, as shall be told .-- H.

A.] To this our only answer was to attend to the lighting of our lamps and the disposal of our small impedimenta, such as our tins of oil and water bottles.

Yva noted this and laughed outright.
"Courage did not die with the Sons of Wisdom," she said.
Then we set out, Yva walking ahead of us and Tommy frisking at her side.
Our road led us through the temple.

As we passed the great gates I started, for there, in the centre of that glorious building, I perceived a change.