She listened always smiling that same smile that was so sweet, yet so inhuman.

Then when he stopped exhausted, at last she spoke, saying: "What! do you love now more greatly than you fear, as the divine Prince of Kesh loved after Amen's Star had sung to him.

May your fate be happier, O noble Abi, but that, since it is not lawful that I should tell it to you, you shall discover.

Abi, there shall be a royal marriage in Memphis of such joy and feasting as has not been known in the history of the Northern or the Southern Land, and for your allotted span you shall sit by the side of Egypt's Queen and shine in her light.

Have you not earned the place by right of blood, O conqueror of Pharaoh, and did not Pharaoh promise it to you in your sleep?
Come, the sun of this new day shines, let us walk in it, and bid farewell to shadows.".