Old Bakenkhonsu came too, and asked me many things about the Prince, the Hebrews and Merapi, especially Merapi, of whose deeds, he said, all Egypt was talking, questions that I answered as best I could.
"Here we have that woman of whom Ki told us," he said, "she who shall bring so much joy and so much sorrow to the Prince of Egypt." "Why so ?" I asked.

"He has not taken her into his house, nor do I think that he means to do so." "Yet he will, Ana, whether he means it or not.

For his sake she betrayed her people, which among the Israelites is a deadly crime.

Twice she saved his life, once by warning him of the ambush, and again by stabbing with her own hands one of her kinsmen who was murdering him.

Is it not so?
Tell me; you were there." "It is so, but what then ?" "This: that whatever she may say, she loves him; unless indeed, it is you whom she loves," and he looked at me shrewdly.
"When a woman has a prince, and such a prince to her hand, would she trouble herself to set snares to catch a scribe ?" I asked, with some bitterness.
"Oho!" he said, with one of his great laughs, "so things stand thus, do they?
Well, I thought it, but, friend Ana, be warned in time.