At Cairo a large dahabeeyah that I had hired in advance, manned by an excellent crew and a guard of four soldiers, was awaiting us.

In it we started up the Nile.

For a month or more all went well; also to my delight my wife seemed now and again to show signs of returning intelligence.

Thus she took some interest in the sculptures on the walls of the temples, about which she had been very fond of reading when in health.

I remember that only a few days before the--the catastrophe, she pointed out one of them to me, it was of Isis and the infant Horus, saying, 'Look, George, the holy Mother and the holy Child,' and then bowed to it reverently as she might have done to an altar.