I knew not this mission was so dangerous.

Be careful, Seti, that the scribe Ana comes to no harm." So saying she bowed and vanished through the curtains.
"Ana," said Seti, "tell me, for I never was quick at figures, how many minutes is it from now till the fourth hour to-morrow morning when I shall order my chariot to be ready?
Also, do you know whether it is possible to travel from Goshen across the marshes and to return by Syria?
Or, failing that, to travel across the desert to Thebes and sail down the Nile in the spring ?" "Oh! my Prince, my Prince," I said, "I pray you to dismiss me.

Let me go anywhere out of the reach of her Highness's tongue." "It is strange how alike we think upon every matter, Ana, even of Merapi and the tongues of royal ladies.

Hearken to my command.

You are not to go.