If you refuse, I think that very soon every one of us will have reached a land where perhaps it is not needful to pray at all," and he looked at the infant in her arms.
"I will go," she said.
She went forth carrying the child and I walked behind her.

So did the Prince, but in that darkness he was cut off by a rush of thousands of folk and I saw him no more till all was over.

Bakenkhonsu was with me leaning on my arm, but Ki had gone on before us, for his own ends as I think.

A huge mob moved through the dense darkness, in which here and there lights floated like lamps upon a quiet sea.

I did not know where we were going until the light of one of these lamps shone upon the knees of the colossal statue of the great Rameses, revealing his cartouche.
Then I knew that we were near the gateway of the vast temple of Memphis, the largest perhaps in the whole world.
We went on through court after pillared court, priests leading us by the hand, till we came to a shrine commanding the biggest court of all, which was packed with men and women.