Call him even if he slay me.

Better that I should die than----" "Hush!" said Asti, laying her hand upon her lips, "speak not that name.
Well, I have some skill, and for your sake--and another's--I will try, but not here.

Perchance he may listen, perchance not, or, perchance, if he comes you and I must pay the price.

Put on your robes, now, O Queen, and over them this veil, and follow me--if you dare." Along narrow passages they crept and down many a secret-stair, till at length they came to a door at the foot of a long slope of rock.
This door Asti unlocked and thrust open, then when they had entered, re-locked it behind them.
"What is this place ?" whispered Tua.
"The burial crypt of the high priestesses of Amen, where it is said that the god watches.

None have entered it for hard on thirty years.