Oh, no! Think not to say 'I will' and afterwards deceive me, for that image which you take with you is my servant, and will keep watch on you and make report to me and to the god, its master.

Now choose." "I will obey," said Merytra faintly, and as she spoke she thought that she heard a laugh in the air outside the window.
"Good.

Now hide the box beneath your cloak and drop it not, for if so that which is within will call aloud after you, and they will kill you for a sorceress.

Unless my word come to you, lay the figure in Pharaoh's bed to-morrow evening, and at the hour of moonrise hold its limbs in the flame in your own chamber, and hide it away, and afterwards bring it back to me that I may enchant it afresh, if there be any need.

Now come, and I will guard you to the gates of the old temple of Sekhet, where Pharaoh dwells.".