For without doubt doom was in the air.

All felt it down to the nurse woman, who cowered close as she dared to the chair of her mistress, and even in that heat shivered from time to time.
Presently little Seti awoke, and began to prattle about something he had dreamed.
"What did you dream, my son ?" asked his father.
"I dreamed," he answered in his baby talk, "that a woman, dressed as Mother was in the temple, took me by the hand and led me into the air.

I looked down, and saw you and Mother with white faces and crying.

I began to cry too, but the woman with the feather cap told me not as she was taking me to a beautiful big star where Mother would soon come to find me." The Prince and I looked at each other and Merapi feigned to busy herself with hushing the child to sleep again.

It drew towards midnight and still no one seemed minded to go to rest.