In her arms she bore what at that distance seemed to be a naked child.

With her came two women, walking a little behind her and supporting her arms, who also wore feather bonnets but without the golden snake, and were clad in tight-fitting, transparent garments.
"My God!" whispered Ragnall, "it is my wife!" "Then be silent and thank Him that she is alive and well," I answered.
The goddess Isis, or the English lady--in that excitement I did not reck which--stood still while the priests and priestesses and all the audience, who, gathered on the upper benches of the amphitheatre, could see her above the wall of the inner court, raised a thrice-repeated and triumphant cry of welcome.

Then Harut and the first priestess lifted respectively an ear of corn and a flower from the two topmost platters and held these first to the lips of the child in her arms and secondly to her lips.
This ceremony concluded, the two attendant women led her round the altar to the stone chair, upon which she seated herself.

Next fire was kindled in the bowl on the tripod in front of the chair, how I could not see; but perhaps it was already smouldering there.

At any rate it burnt up in a thin blue flame, on to which Harut and the head priestess threw something that caused the flame to turn to smoke.