"Ki told me also," he went on slowly, "that I had already known this woman for thousands of years." She started and a strange look came into her face.
"How can that be, Prince ?" "That is what I asked him and got no good answer.

Still he said it, not only of the woman but of my friend Ana as well, which indeed would explain much, and it would appear that the other magicians said it also.
Then I went to the land of Goshen and there I saw a woman----" "For the first time, Prince ?" "No, for the third time." Here she sank upon the bench and covered her eyes with her hands.
"-- --and loved her, and felt as though I had loved her for 'thousands of years.'" "It is not true.

You mock me, it is not true!" she whispered.
"It is true for if I did not know it then, I knew it afterwards, though never perhaps completely until to-day, when I learned that Userti had deserted me indeed.

Moon of Israel, you are that woman.

I will not tell you," he went on passionately, "that you are fairer than all other women, or sweeter, or more wise, though these things you seem to me.