Do not try to conjure down the Moon to be your household lamp lest she should set, and the Sun, her lord, should grow wroth and burn you up.

Well, she loves him, and therefore soon or late she will make him love her, being what she is." "How, Bakenkhonsu ?" "With most men, Ana, it would be simple.

A sigh, some half-hidden tears at the right moment, and the thing is done, as I have known it done a thousand times.

But this prince being what he is, it may be otherwise.
She may show him that her name is gone from him; that because of him she is hated by her people, and rejected by her god, and thus stir his pity, which is Love's own sister.

Or mayhap, being also, as I am told, wise, she will give him counsel as to all these matters of the Israelites, and thus creep into his heart under the guise of friendship, and then her sweetness and her beauty will do the rest in Nature's way.