Moreover, it is not in a tomb that I shall lie with him, or so I believe.

The faith of these Egyptians which we despise tells of a life eternal in the heavens, and thither I would go to seek that which is lost, and to wait that which is left behind awhile." "Ah!" said Jabez.

"For my part I do not trouble myself with these problems, who find in a life temporal on the earth enough to fill my thoughts and hands.

Yet, Merapi, you are a rebel, and whether in heaven or on earth, how are rebels received by the king against whom they have rebelled ?" "You say I am rebel," she said, turning on him with flashing eyes.

"Why?
Because I would not dishonour myself by marrying a man I hate, one also who is a murderer, and because while I live I will not desert a man whom I love to return to those who have done me naught but evil.