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.

My mother died, and I have had no one to guide me, for I who for the most part need some one to lead me can already command, and be obeyed.

You had a mother to bring you up, who, when you were still a child, was proud of her pretty little daughter, and let her--as it became her so well-dream and play, without warning her against the dangerous propensity.