Therefore, with your leave, I will ask him to stay here." "My Prince," I broke in, "I pray you suffer me to go." "My Secretary," he answered with a note of command in his voice, "I pray you to remain where you are." So I sat myself on the ground after the fashion of a scribe, having no choice, and the Princess sat herself on a couch at the end of the table, but Seti remained standing.

Then the Princess said: "Since it is your will, Brother, that I should talk secrets into other ears than yours, I obey you.

Still"-- here she looked at me wrathfully--"let the tongue be careful that it does not repeat what the ears have heard, lest there should be neither ears nor tongue.

My Brother, it has been reported to Pharaoh, while we ate together, that there is tumult in this town.

It has been reported to him that because of a trouble about some base Israelite you caused one of his officers to be beheaded, after which there came a riot which still rages." "Strange that truth should have come to the ears of Pharaoh so quickly.
Now, my Sister, if he had heard it three moons hence I could have believed you--almost." "Then you did behead the officer ?" "Yes, I beheaded him about two hours ago." "Pharaoh will demand an account of the matter." "Pharaoh," answered Seti lifting his eyes, "has no power to question the justice of the Governor of Tanis in the north." "You are in error, Seti.