Hearken to me, Rames, you are right; I know, as I have always known, and as you would have known also had you been less foolish than you are.

You love me and I love you, for so it was decreed where souls are made, and so it has been from the beginning and so it shall be to the end.

You, a gentleman of Egypt, love the Queen of Egypt, and she is yours and no other man's.

Such is the decree of him who caused us to be born upon the same day, and to be nursed upon the same kind breast.
Well, after all, why not?
If love brings death upon us, as well may chance, at least the love will remain which is worth it all, and beyond death there is something." "Only this, Tua, I seek the woman not a throne, and alas! through me you may be torn from your high place." "The throne goes with the woman, Rames, they cannot be separated.

But, say, something comes over me; if that happened, if I were an outcast, a wanderer, with nothing save this shape and soul of mine, and it were you that sat upon a throne, would you still love me, Rames ?" "Why ask such questions ?" he replied indignantly.