I asked her what she feared.

She answered death, which was near to all of us.

I said: "If so, there are worse things, Lady." "For you mayhap you are faithful and good in your own fashion, but not for me.

Do you not understand, friend Ana, that I am one who has broken the law of the God I was taught to worship ?" "And which of us is there who has not broken the law of the god we were taught to worship, Lady?
If in truth you have done anything of the sort by flying from a murderous villain to one who loves you well, which I do not believe, surely there is forgiveness for such sins as this." "Aye, perhaps, but, alas! the thing is blacker far.

Have you forgotten what I did?
Dressed in the robes of Isis I worshipped in the temple of Isis with my boy playing the part of Horus on my bosom.