Joseph fled with the boy down narrow streets so as to avoid the crowd that wanted to press round him and look at and pet Pharaoh's little favourite.
The same evening an anxious council was held in the little hut.

The boy, Jesus, was drawn to Pharaoh without saying why.

They were terrified about it.

The two working people had no idea that their life was becoming too narrow for his young soul, that he wanted to fortify himself with the knowledge to be obtained from the papyrus rolls of the ancient men of wisdom, with the intellectual products of the land of the Pharaohs.

And still less did they imagine that a deeper reason led their boy to desire to learn something of life in the world.
Joseph admitted that the manuscripts in the royal collection counted for something.