The Mummy and the long-dead Nitocris back to life! By the way, I wonder whether that flagon was really there, and whether there _was_ any wine in it?
If there was, perhaps I took too much of it.

Ah, there's the rain again! "By the way now, suppose that this fourth dimension that has puzzled so many of us is, after all, duration?
If so, it would solve a great many problems, because it would be possible to be and not to be at the same time, and, therefore, for two bodies to occupy the same space.

That would be perfectly easy of supposition to the being to whom time and eternity were one.

Yes, I believe that when the great problem is solved, it will be found that the fourth dimension _is_ duration, extending in all directions like the circumference of a circle, the edges of a cube, and the curves of the conic sections.
"Yes, I really do think I have got it at last, and that confounded Mummy has taught it me.

Still, I don't think I ought to speak as disrespectfully as that of a young lady who has been dead for the last fifty centuries or so and has come back.