If it pleases Thee not, then let me die, as doubtless for my many sins I deserve to do.

O God of my fathers, I have made my prayer.

Hear it or reject it according to Thy Will." So she ended, and listening to her, I felt the tears rising in my eyes, because she was so much alone, and I feared that this god of hers would never come to save her from the torments of the priests.

Seti also turned his head away, and stared down the sanctuary at the sky over the open court where the lights of dawn were gathering.
Once more there was silence.

Then again that wind blew, very strongly, extinguishing the lamps, and, as it seemed to me, whirling away Merapi from where she was, so that now she stood to one side of the statue.