If you are lonely and I am lonely apart, we should, you say, be less lonely together." "Prince," she murmured, shrinking away from him, "I spoke no such words." "No, I spoke them for you.

Hearken to me, Merapi.

They think me a strange man in Egypt because I have held no woman dear, never having seen one whom I could hold dear." Here she looked at him searchingly, and he went on, "A while ago, before I visited your land of Goshen--Ana can tell you about the matter, for I think he wrote it down--Ki and old Bakenkhonsu came to see me.

Now, as you know, Ki is without doubt a great magician, though it would seem not so great as some of your prophets.

He told me that he and others had been searching out my future and that in Goshen I should find a woman whom it was fated I must love.
He added that this woman would bring me much joy." Here Seti paused, doubtless remembering this was not all that Ki had said, or Jabez either.