"Can it be Chamus ?" at last she said, "he is at the camp, it is true, but nevertheless--" At this instant Nemu, who had not lost a word of the conversation, came in as if straight from the garden and said: "Pardon me, my lady; but I have heard a strange thing." "Speak," said Katuti.
"The high and mighty princess Bent-Anat, the daughter of Rameses, is said to have an open love-affair with a young priest of the House of Seti." "You barefaced scoundrel!" exclaimed Ani, and his eyes sparkled with rage.

"Prove what you say, or you lose your tongue." "I am willing to lose it as a slanderer and traitor according to the law," said the little man abjectly, and yet with a malicious laugh; "but this time I shall keep it, for I can vouch for what I say.

You both know that Bent-Anat was pronounced unclean because she stayed for an hour and more in the house of a paraschites.

She had an assignation there with the priest.

At a second, in the temple of Hatasu, they were surprised by Septah, the chief of the haruspices of the House of Seti." "Who is the priest ?" asked Ani with apparent calmness.
"A low-born man," replied Nemu, "to whom a free education was given at the House of Seti, and who is well known as a verse-maker and interpreter of dreams.