Only be sure of your tidings ere you believe them.
Now there is nothing more to say.

Farewell to you, Rames, till we meet again beneath or beyond the sun.

Our royal pact is made.

Come, seal it and begone." She rose and stretched out her sceptre to him, which he kissed as her faithful subject.

Next, with a swift movement, she lifted the golden _uraeus_ circlet from her brow and for a moment set it on his head, crowning him her king, and while it rested there she, the Queen of Egypt, bent the knee before him and did him homage.