The Pyramids chilled her.

So they were what he had been thinking about, and not herself.
Horace went on.

"It shone upon all those ancient battle-fields of the Old Testament, and the children of Israel in their exile," he said.
Rose looked at him.

"It shone upon the Garden of Eden after Adam had so longed for Eve that she grew out of his longing and became something separate from himself, so that he could see her without seeing himself all the time; and it shone upon the garden in Solomon's Song, and the roses of Sharon, and the lilies of the valley, and the land flowing with milk and honey," said she, in a childish tone of levity which had an undercurrent of earnestness in it.

All her emotional nature and her pride arose against Pyramids and Old Testament battle-fields, when she had only been conscious that the moon shone upon Horace and herself.