I have caused Mermes to question the officer of the guard, and he says that she came to the gate accompanied by a tall man wrapped in a dark cloak, who spoke with her earnestly, and left her.
From this description I think it must have been the astrologer, Kaku, with whom she was talking at the feast." "That is bad news, Nurse.

What else have you to tell ?" "Only this, Queen.

The gates are guarded more closely even than we thought.

I tried to send out a man to Thebes this morning with a message on my own account--never mind what it was--and the sentries turned him back." "By the gods!" exclaimed Tua, "before I have reigned a year every gate in Memphis shall be melted down for cooking vessels, and I will set their captains to work in the desert mines.

Nay, such threats are foolishness, I'll not threaten, I'll strike when the time comes, but that is not yet.