After a period of prostration, during which she seemed a corpse, she had slowly come back to earthly existence.

The graphic descriptions of the scenes by her bedside, of her apparent death, her cold and bloodless body, her lagging and ghastly revival to consciousness, aroused in the servants' hall a fevered interest.

Ameerah was asked questions, and gave such answers as satisfied herself if not her interlocutors.

She was perfectly aware of the opinions of her fellow servitors.

She knew all about them while they knew nothing whatsoever about her.