To save you, Baaltis, laying aside her own power, led a mortal man to the grove, which it is death that mortal man should violate." "Who can fathom the way of the gods ?" she replied with passion, then added, as though reasoning with a new-born doubt, "Did not the goddess hear my prayer and answer it ?" "In truth, lady, I cannot say.

Let me think.

If I understood you rightly, you prayed for heavenly wisdom, but whether or not you have gained it within this last hour, I do not know.

And then you prayed for love, an immortal love.

O, maiden, has it come to you since yonder moon appeared upon the sky?
And you prayed----" "Peace!" she broke in, "peace and mock me not, or, prince that you are, I will publish your crime of spying upon the prayer of a priestess of Baaltis.