"Oh! I thank Hathor that at last she has touched thy heart.

The daughter of Rameses need not even send for the diver to fetch the jewel out of the sea; at a sign from her the pearl will rise of itself, and lie on the sand at her slender feet." Bent-Anat smiled and kissed Nefert's brow.
"How it excites you," she said, "and stirs your heart and tongue! If two strings are tuned in harmony, and one is struck, the other sounds, my music master tells me.

I believe you would listen to me till morning if I only talked to you about my love.

But it was not for that that we came out on the balcony.

Now listen! I am as lonely as you, I love less happily than you, the House of Seti threatens me with evil times--and yet I can preserve my full confidence in life and my joy in existence.
How can you explain this ?" "We are so very different," said Nefert.
"True," replied Bent-Anat, "but we are both young, both women, and both wish to do right.